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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself. W. E. B. Du Bois

Good Yourself Discipline Master Books Some Take Read Hand Just Heavy Serious

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. Abraham Lincoln

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I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling. Brad Pitt

I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him. Dav Pilkey

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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. Dick Gregory

Great History Victory Think Books Indians Fair Massacre Because Cavalry Won History Books Against Root Used

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

Few Others Books Some Chewed Tasted Swallowed

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff. John Grisham

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Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places. Louis L'Amour

Time Waiting People Year Books Say Jobs Kind Restaurant See People Say Record Absolute Read Nonsense Hear Hear People Friends Dentist Offices Often Which While Places Many Twenty-Five Applying Kept

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse

History Humanity Writing Words Books Would Would-Be Could Concept Without

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind. Idina Menzel

You Mind Baby Innocence State Books Find See Able Relive Maintain Toys Read Because Were Child Get Childhood Order Again Little Your Your Child Special Connect Keeps

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. John Milton

Books Shallow Himself

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech. Kathleen Troia McFarland

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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud. Langston Hughes

Great Needs Books About Proud Children Them Themselves Help Lives

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. Moliere

Great History Political Books Dancing Great Leaders Misfortunes Arisen Leaders Merely Failures Tragic History Books Lack Blunders Mankind Skill Fill Ills

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka

Truth Writing Wish Books Those Suppress Terror Forms Who

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might. Dr. Seuss

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