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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
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As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
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The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.
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Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.


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Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
Henry Timrod
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.


Norman Mailer
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Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.


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Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.


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The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.


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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.


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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.


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I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.
Anthony Bourdain
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Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.


LeBron James
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The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.


Robert Crumb
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As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
Mary Antin
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.


Adam McKay
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