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"Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book."	Muriel Clark
"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."	Arthur C(harles) Clarke
"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."	Peter Cochrane
"Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting."	G. Norman Collie
"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them."	Jackie Collins
"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."	Confucius
"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."	Cyril Connolley
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice."	Cyril Connolley
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."	Douglas Couplan
"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre."	Frank H. Crane
"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."	Quentin Crisp
"I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one."	David A. Cronin
"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."	Philip
"To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule: keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule."	Marnie Reed Crowell
"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."	Guy
"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people."	Thomas Davidson
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."	Robertson Davies
"If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else..an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong."	Anthony de Mello
"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess."	Rene Descartes
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has!"	Rene Descartes
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