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"Boulding pages at the University of Colorado at Boulder"

"Watts published a luminous book entitled The Wisdom of Insecurity that ought to be required reading for every high school senior. Watts elaborates beautifully on what I've learned from observation and…"

"Computer science is still a young field. The first computers were built in the mid 1940s, since when the field has developed tremendously. Applications from the early years of computerization can be c…"

"Complete list of sci-fi award wins and nominations by novelist"

"Now, to say that a lot of objects is finite, is the same as to say that if we pass through the class from one to another we shall necessarily come round to one of those individuals already passed; tha…"

"Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author."

"Joint Review: The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord", The Book Smugglers"

"The book is in everyone's hands, from the court to the cottage, and is read, or heard, and appreciated alike by every class of the Hindu community, whether high or low, rich or poor, young or old."

"P. Carnegy has written that Ayodhyā is to the Hindus what Mecca is to the Mahomedon and Jerusalem to the Jews. R.T. Griffith, the celebrated translator of Vālmīki Rāmayana, was of the opinion that ‘Aj…"

"I saw my father for the last time in 1916... The texts of the various legends and songs he had written or dictated...perhaps, by some miracle...may still be preserved among the things I left... The in…"

"If you want to understand the beliefs that are shaping global politics, read the Book of Revelation."

"Ask Mr. Lee what fad is in. Now you can wear and be X. Legacy turns novelty."

"Graphic novelist: Don’t you feel foolish accepting that lie?"

"JewishVirtualLibrary.org"

"Unqualified Reservations e-books—collected writings"

"“Architecture has been a domain of architects, a discipline presumably dominated by immaculately dressed bookish pedants that have a stream of thought well displaced from regular human thought.”- Rem …"

"I always like to write three versions of a book. The first is always agony and chaos; no one could understand it. With the second you get the shape, it's more or less all right. I write both of those …"

"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."

"L. Ron Hubbard - The Rotten Library"

"Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of st…"