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"Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go." Clay C...

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they w...

"It is the artist's job to create sunshine when there is none." Romain Rolland,   Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 And it always...

Some political quotes I picked up lately and want to share. I guess, if you are Republican I have to warn you, this could wake you up. ...

"The more languages you have, the more worlds you belong to." Marta Dzuirosz So true. It goes with another quote that you get a ne...

Quotes about the all important history: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana. (1863-1...

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that yo...

     "Books are flying carpets into the realm of fantasy." James Daniel I like that allegory. "If you are depressed you are ...

     "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." Nicolaus ...

     "Speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills!" St. Catherine of Siena It's always best to stick to the ...

     Unfortunately, Alice Munro passed away this week at the age of 92. She was a Nobel Prize winner and wrote some great books. In order t...

    "Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." Rita Mae Brown Tha...

   "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Maya Angelou That's a nice thought. ...

   "She had read enough stories to know that the princess and the monster were never the same. She had been alone long enough to know...

  "There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there...

  "My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes And...

  "A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a c...

  "The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's interesting that Goethe alre...

   "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child." Marcus Tullius Cicero That is a good though...

   "We learn from history that we do not learn from history." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Unfortunately, my compatriot is so rig...