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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read a

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. – Alan Bennett

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The truest owner of a library is he who has bought each book for the love he bears to it; who is happy and content to say, “Here are my jewels, my choicest possessions!” – Frank Carr

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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. – Andrew Ross

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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I really hope that well have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully were not too far lost. – Ellen Page

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Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I dont want to be famous. I want to be secure. I dont want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis. – Eric Davis

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When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change. – Simon Mainwaring

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