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It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. Gene Simmons

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. H. P. Lovecraft

Library Before Live Books Furniture Indeed Possess Week Part Without Go Private Squat Let Go Floor Sleep

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book. Jean Harlow

Christmas Me Book Books Give Give Me

I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers. Jim Elliot

Home Needs Bible Church Dust Books Dare Stay More Prophets Written Moses Perish Condemnation Covers Lot Stirring What If Bank While Scriptures Whole Homeland

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs

Life Day Thoughts Walks Think Too Books Find See Take Read Still Friends Short Want Each Each Day

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. John Burroughs

Life Nature Three Resources Books Say Constant Name Most Greatest Always Least Were Hand Friends Precious Should

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right. Stephenie Meyer

Sad Hope Time You Happy People Impossible Giving Think Everyone Books Though Would Rely Write Had Know Make Gosh Still Get Same Maybe Same Time Different Wanted Then Billion Even Right

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Thurgood Marshall

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. William Osler

Buy Books Easier Simpler Absorb Read Contents Than Them Much

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau

World Wealth Books Generations Fit Nations Inheritance Treasured

Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

God Religion Blessing Peace People Innocent Islam Other Books Those Muslims Prophets Moses Also Him Accepts Whether Mohammed

Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue. Adam Mansbach

You Weary Try Listening Every Adding Books Kid Find Over Soothing Read Dude Dialogue Line End Times Same Children Stories Crave Again Holiday Your Grown Routine

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them. Anna Quindlen

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy. Charles Caleb Colton

Will Few Too Books Never Fail True Like True Friends Well Return Cease Friends Again Them Us Should Chosen

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. Ezra Pound

Life Man Book Men Seen Books Rate He Part Until Contents Understand Understands Least Any Certain Deep Lived Amount

Particularly since the computerization of the world, the impact of media has grown enormously. The printed books and the printed media have become less important. Why should somebody read Laozi or Confucius if he can Google? Helmut Schmidt

World Somebody Important Google Become Books Impact He Since Particularly Read Printed Confucius Should Less Media Grown Why

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky. Jane Goodall

We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear. John Lewis

Family Hate People Burden Down Live Too Books Way Say Must Find Bear Lay Through House Same Heavy Information

Books, the children of the brain. Jonathan Swift

Education Books Brain Children

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems. Maeve Binchy

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