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We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

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You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

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Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.

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If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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