"In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. All things are corrupted and decay in time; Saturn ceases not to devour the children that he generates; all the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books."

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Source : Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

Richard de Bury

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“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.”
“I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.”
“If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?”

Source : "The GQA: Kal Penn". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.
“Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.”
“The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.”
“That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.”
“Truth is often attended with danger.”

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