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In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from the fall; In you the Future as the Past is given-- Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;-- Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven, Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)

When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong. (Quote by - Diane Ravitch)

For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

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. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. (Quote by - Alan Perlis)

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. (Quote by - Anthony Marcel)

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

All of us can think of a book that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -- that work I abhor -- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. (Quote by - Katherine Paterson)

There is something for everyone at our book sales. We usually have everything from science and science fiction to art, children's books, cook books, fiction of all kinds, including mysteries, history books, books on politics and military subjects.. just everything you could want. (Quote by - Esther Buck)

O followers of the Book! Why do you disbelieve in the communications of Allah while you witness (them)? / O followers of the Book! Why do you confound the truth with the falsehood and hide the truth while you know? / And a party of the followers of the Book say: Avow belief in that which has been revealed to those who believe, in the first part of the day, and disbelieve at the end of it, perhaps they go back on their religion. (Quote by - quran)

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all. (Quote by - Carolyn Wells)

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. (Quote by - Harper Lee)

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes .. We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language .. without whos. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)

We really thought starting the weekend that we would be somewhere between $16.5 million and just over $17 million on 'Jungle Book,' based on the way the matinees played out, .. You're probably looking at a conservative $1.5 million to $2.5 million differential just on 'Jungle Book' [and about] the same for 'Shanghai.' On 'Recruit' it probably cost us $1 million to $1.5 million. (Quote by - Chuck Viane)

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Choose an author as you choose a friend. (Quote by - Sir Christopher Wren)

The Hilton Family of Hotels has made numerous enhancements to its websites that are better tailored to guests' specific needs, making it even more convenient for them to find the right hotel accommodations and services at the best value. From a business standpoint, these enhancements will enable our company to continue increasing the percentage of online net bookings across all of its brands, the average of which was 30 percent higher in 2005 over 2004. The Hilton Family brand websites now receive more than 15 percent of overall reservations contribution via its proprietary websites, while booking from third-party websites remains flat at under 3 percent. The month of January evidenced new records in customer visits, click-to-book and electronic customer engagement, and annual revenues are fast approaching $2 billion, making the Hilton Family of Hotels web-sites among some of the largest commercial sites in the world. (Quote by - Bala Subramanian)

Science and engineering students typically have the most expensive books, with their editions tending to be updated frequently and having supplemental materials like CD-ROMs. Some of [my books] are expensive, .. I usually get book vouchers from my loans and use that money to buy books from the bookstore. (Quote by - James Dempsey)

I read the book my son brought it home. It's a great book if you're into Socialism but not Americanism. (Quote by - Robert Klotz)

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid. (Quote by - Herman Melville)

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

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