"Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books."

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Erik Larson

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me â€“ afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?”
“In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated”
“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”

Source : University of California Regents v. Bakke (opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part) (1978)
“A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”
“I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.”
“Just as physical energy comes from diet, exercise and rest, emotional energy comes from the ways you take care of yourself emotionally -- living in a way that makes you feel inspired, hopeful, self-confident, playful, loving and in touch with what you care about most.”
“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”
“Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.”

Source : Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.47, Gale Cengage Learning

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