We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear. ― Bill Russell

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ― Rumi

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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. ―Steve Jobs

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Hope is the spark that lights up the darkest nights.

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I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.

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