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| Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run. | Anne W. Schaef | |
| The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. | Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993, British Writer, Critic |
| Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. | Anthony Hope | 1863-1933, British Writer |
| Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. | Anthony J. D'Angelo | |
| Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. | Anthony J. D'Angelo | |
| Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. | Anthony Marcel | |
| Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. | Anthony Trollope | 1815-1882, British Novelist |
| Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. | Antoine Rivarol | 1753-1801, French Journalist, Epigrammatist |
| All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. | Antonin Artaud | 1896-1948, French Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist |
| When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. | Arabian Proverb | Sayings of Arabian Origin |
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| Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. | Archibald Alexander | |
| What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet |
| Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. | Arnold Bennett | 1867-1931, British Novelist |
| The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open. | Arnold H. Glasgow | |
| It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. | Arthur C. Clarke | 1917-, British Science Fiction Writer |
| All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. | Arthur Christopher Benson | 1862-1925, British Author, Poet |
| He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. | Arthur James Balfour | 1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister |
| That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? | Arthur Miller | 1915-, American Dramatist |
| To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
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| Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The word of man is the most durable of all material. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. | Atwood H. Townsend | |
| No language is rude that can boast polite writers. | Aubrey Beardsley | 1872-1898, British Illustrator, Writer |
| In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? | Aubrey Beardsley | 1872-1898, British Illustrator, Writer |
| Literature is the immortality of speech. | August Wilhelm Von Schlegel | 1767-1845, German Poet, Critic |
| Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. | Augustine Birrell | 1850-1933, British Essayist, Liberal Politician |
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| Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. | Augustine Birrell | 1850-1933, British Essayist, Liberal Politician |
| Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent. | B. C. Forbes | 1880-1954, American Publisher |
| I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. | B. K. Sandwell | |
| We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. | Barbara Johnson | |
| You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. | Barbara Sher | American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was'' |
| To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents. | Barbara Tuchman | 1912-1989, American Historian |
| Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. | Ben Johnson | 1600-?British Clergyman, Poet |
| Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
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| A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| He that won't be counseled can't be helped. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| The things which hurt, instruct. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| He that can have patience can have what he will. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| One man is as good as another until he has written a book. | Benjamin Jowett | 1817-1893, British Scholar |
| Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. | Benjamin Lee Whorf | 1897-1941, American Linguist |
| We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. | Benjamin Lee Whorf | 1897-1941, American Linguist |
| Books had instant replay long before televised sports. | Bert Williams | |
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