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"Right from the beginning, Spinoza was a decisive philosopher for Schelling. This may now sound like yet another dusty little truth in the museums and archives of philosophy, but in Schelling's day, to…"

"Shaun White's page at the Olympic Committee"

"One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all."

"The streak of rationality and questioning tradition too came early to him. Once a multicoloured book on the shelf at home caught his attention and he decided to read it, despite it being in Sanskrit, …"

"When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings."

"I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet."

"Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how …"

"A special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater facility than if it were taken from a shel…"

"The lives of the Outer Dwellers had become almost normal again. Bitterness was their bread and rivalry their wine."

"When I left the University of Santo Tomas, I had but a smattering of Spanish. My friends made sport of me. What keen mortification did I suffer at my ignorance! One day, no longer able to stand the je…"

"Selection does not work by cutthroat competition between individuals, but by favouring whatever behavior is useful to the group. People with crude notions of "Darwinism" make an intriguing blunder her…"

"Haiti Trust Digital Library"

"I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing … I like to think before I speak ."

"If I knew, I think I would not be able to continue writing, or wouldn't have written the books I have written."

"There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it."

"Several of Frost's early books online"

"Sir Walter Scott was the Luther of literature. He reformed and he regenerated. To say that he founded a new school is not saying the whole truth ; for there is something narrow in the idea of a school…"

"The need of conspicuous waste... stands ready to absorb any increase in the community's industrial efficiency or output of goods."

"Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading."

"Barks, Coleman: Naked Songs, Maypop Books, 1992"