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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Literature History, Civilization

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• Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

  Jean Sasson

  Poverty, Revolution, Torches

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• And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.

  Jack Nicholson

  Men, Disrespect, Able

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• The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Friendship, Work, Voice

  Radio address on his 90th birthday, 8 Mar. 1931

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• The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Clouds, Iceland, Eruption

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• Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

  Elmore Leonard

  Details, Stories, Want

  Elmore Leonard (2009). “Get Shorty: A Novel”, p.207, Zondervan

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• It's not the end of the world to lose.

  Andy Murray

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, World, Baseball Love

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, and (as a poet has said) "lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions , teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Book, Humanity

  "The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979".

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• The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Apology, Law

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Book, Sea

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