Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Strong Quotes, Book Quotes

Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.

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We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

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I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.

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Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.

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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.

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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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