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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Alan Bennett
    “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys
    tags: books, history, reading
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Maureen Corrigan
    “It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
    ― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
    tags: books, people, reading
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: art, craft, fiction, reading, writing
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    Angela Carter
    “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
    ― Angela Carter
    tags: books, reading
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “I am a part of everything that I have read.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: reading
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    Edmund Wilson
    “No two persons ever read the same book.”
    ― Edmund Wilson
    tags: books, perspective, reading
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    Allan Bloom
    “The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
    ― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
    tags: belief, books, narrowmindedness, reading, self-deception, self-limiting-beliefs, vision
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
    tags: humor, reading, wallflowers, women
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
    tags: reading, truth
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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    “Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better.”
    ― Richard Paul
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    “If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always be in danger of becoming slaves to the ideas and values of others due to our own ignorance.”
    ― William Hughes, Jonathan Lavery, Katheryn Doran
    tags: critical-thinking
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    Albert Einstein
    “I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has to use later directly in life. The demands of life are much too manifold to let such a specialized training in school appear possible [...] The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgement should always be placed foremost.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: critical-thinking, education, independent-thinking, independent-thought, knowledge
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
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    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
    tags: books
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: books, originality, unique
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
    tags: books, reading
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    Carl Sagan
    “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    Diane Setterfield
    “There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: books, power-of-words
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    Jane Austen
    “It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
    tags: books
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    Steve Jobs
    “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: complex, hard, simple, thinking, truth, wisdom, worth
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    John Keats
    “The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
    about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: intelligence, thinking
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    Warren Buffett
    “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: business, habits, hare, inspirational-life, reading, think, thinking, tortoise, warren-buffet
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    “The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.”
    ― Ronald Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
    tags: new-thought, problem-solving
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