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| Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held. | Milton Hall | |
| Patience is the key to contentment. | Mohammed | c.570-c.632, Meccan Spiritual Leader |
| Books and marriage go ill together. | MoliLre | 1622-1673, French Playwright |
| @Grammar, which can govern even Kings. | MoliLre | 1622-1673, French Playwright |
| In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. | Mortimer J. Adler | 1902-, American Educator, Philosopher |
| Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. | Mortimer J. Adler | 1902-, American Educator, Philosopher |
| The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. | Mortimer J. Adler | 1902-, American Educator, Philosopher |
| You will conquer by patience. | Motto | |
| The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-, South African Author |
| A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
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| There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
| Numbers constitute the only universal language. | Nathanael West | |
| The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer |
| Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. | Nelson Algren | 1909-1981, American Author |
| The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. | Newton D. Baker | |
| Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. | Nicholson Baker | 1957-, American Author |
| No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. | Noah Porter | |
| If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. | Noam Chomsky | 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist |
| The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. | Noam Chomsky | 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist |
| Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. | Noam Chomsky | 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist |
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| The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. | Nolan Bushnell | American Businessman, Founder of Atari Computer |
| A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. | Norman Cousins | 1915-1990, American Editor, Humanitarian, Author |
| I usually need a can of beer to prime me. | Norman Mailer | 1923-, American Author |
| In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. | Northrop Frye | 1912-1991, Canadian Literary Critic |
| Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. | Novalis | 1772-1801, German Poet, Novelist |
| Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. | Octavio Paz | 1914-, Mexican Poet, Essayist |
| Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. | Octavio Paz | 1914-, Mexican Poet, Essayist |
| And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. | Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright |
| The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
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| Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape. | Oriana Fallaci | |
| They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. | Orson Welles | 1915-1985, American Film Maker |
| Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
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| We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Books are standing counsellors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. | Oswald Chambers | 1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author |
| A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a saleable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. | Oswald Chambers | 1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author |
| Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. | Otto Von Bismarck | 1815-1898, Prussian Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch. | P. D. James | 1920-, British Mystery Writer |
| A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. | Pablo Neruda | 1904-1973, Chilean Poet |
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