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Post by oda on Dec 7, 2006 8:13:20 GMT -5
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values"- Ayn Rand
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phishhead42
First piece published in the school’s newspaper
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Post by phishhead42 on Dec 8, 2006 0:47:57 GMT -5
my signature by Langston Hughes is my favorite quote. I also like Eleanor Roosevelt's quote "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your own consent." also " Walk lightly, but carry a big stick" - Theodore Roosevelt
Those are just off the top of my head.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 8, 2006 14:45:55 GMT -5
I was watching Rachel Ray earlier and Wynonna was on. She was talking about praying and she said, "Pray to accept the things you can't change, and pray to gather the courage to change the things you can." I thought it was insightful and true
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Dec 18, 2006 16:32:11 GMT -5
Here´s a quote I thought really fitting for our members Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. Arnold Lobel
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Dec 18, 2006 18:40:47 GMT -5
That's an awesome one! Although I do hope I skip the long beard part
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Post by Dominique on Dec 18, 2006 20:46:31 GMT -5
wow, I like that one!
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Post by Dominique on Dec 19, 2006 18:53:05 GMT -5
I've traveled the world twice over, Met the famous; saints and sinners, Poets and artists, kings and queens, Old stars and hopeful beginners, I've been where no-one's been before, Learned secrets from writers and cooks All with one library ticket To the wonderful world of books. ~ Anonymous ~
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Post by Dominique on Dec 19, 2006 19:04:02 GMT -5
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~Jorge Luis Borges~
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~ Ray Bradbury ~
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ~ Gilbert Highet ~
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book. ~ Groucho Marx ~
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." ~ Mark Twain ~
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 19, 2006 21:04:07 GMT -5
"Never judge a book by its movie." ~JW Eagan
"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." ~Thomas Carlyle
"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." ~Jerry Seinfeld
"Books are the quietest and most constant friends; they are the most accesible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." ~Charles W. Eliot
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Dec 20, 2006 9:10:18 GMT -5
Those are all great ones!
I watched Dead Poets Society this week and I really like when Keating says:
"Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 20, 2006 11:24:11 GMT -5
I liked thay movie
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Dec 20, 2006 13:04:39 GMT -5
Wow, this threat is so busy! I also like: Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? -Henry Ward Beecher-
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Post by bookaddict on Dec 21, 2006 7:23:30 GMT -5
i really like the "never judge a book by its movie" lol. So true....
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