I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad. –Tupac Shakur

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. —Earl Nightingale

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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You don’t like people?” Raf asked. “I don’t like what people do to each other. ― Matthew Reilly, Troll Mountain

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

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You can't be all things to all people. ~ Michael Porter

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It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people. ―Steve Jobs

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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