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"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider."	Sir Francis Bacon
"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."	James Arthur Baldwin
"Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept."	Carl Lotus Becker
"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."	William John Bennett
"Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."	Leonard Bernstein
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things."	Ecclesiates 1:9:22 Bible
"If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat."	Proverbs Bible
"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep."	Psalm 127:2 Bible
"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?"	Jim
"I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste."	David Bissonette
"He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven."	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."	Robert Oxton Bolt
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double."	Robert H(eron) Bork
"It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights."	Elizabeth Bowen
"I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life."	Malcolm Boyd
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."	Ray Douglas Bradbury
"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."	Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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