Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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In America, we’re really good at blowing things up but not so good in knowing where the pieces will land. ― Mike Tyson

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They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

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The best fashion accessory is a book.

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Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

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When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ― Marthe Troly-Curtin

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A man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself. ― Mike Tyson

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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. ' - Lev Grossman

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