"Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend â€œa course of reading.â€ Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course."

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Source : Andrew Lang (2012). “Adventures Among Books (Annotated Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

Andrew Lang

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“Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.”
“Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.”
“With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.”
“If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.”

Source : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Dr Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. May 12, 2014.
“You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.”

Source : "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.
“Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.”
“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2012). “The Long-Legged House”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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