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Reading, in contrast to sitting before the screen, is not a purely passive exercise.

— George F. Kennan

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For the love of God, for the love of your children and of the civilization to which you belong, cease this madness.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Vol. 37 (1981)

Although the Georgian nationalists do not like Stalin, they have every reason to be thankful to him.

World communism is like a malignant parasite which feeds only on diseased tissue.

I have never been any good at training children or dogs; that is why I am no good at training myself.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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