"Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own."

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Charles Scribner IV

#Reading Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?”
“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.”
“No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.”
“Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.”
“It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no oneâ€”not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses â€” ever makes it alone.”
“When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to articulate that I was trying to assimilate to whiteness. If anything, I was trying to "look normal."”
“Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.”
“Iâ€™m already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium.”

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