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“The moment you praise a book too highly, you awaken resistance in your listener.”

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“I suck in a breath. "If you tell me you're late because you were bedding some girl, I'll place an enchantment spell on you and make you eat dirt." He tilts his head. "No, I did not rendezvous with some girl." We're both silent for a minute. "It was a man." -Atticus”

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“While Eyvind never became a literate man, he saw as he went on that books contained words that could transform men into priests and kings and healers.”

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“Nobody was holding a gun to your head when you started reading this. You made a choice.”

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“Κουβάλησε δυο δυο, τέσσερα τέσσερα, έξι έξι, τα βιβλία του πατέρα και του παππού του με τελετουργικό τρόπο στην αυλή του σπιτιού. Έφτιαξε σορούς εδώ και εκεί, τα περιέχυσε με πετρέλαιο με μεγάλη προσοχή και τα έβαλε φωτιά. Στην αρχή ο μάυρος καπνός της κηροζίνης δεν άφηνε τις φλόγες να ξεχωρίσουν, αλλά μετά από λίγο, όσο περνούσε η ώρα, άρχισαν να λάμπουν νικηφόρα, σε έντονο κίτρινο χρώμα, στο χρώμα που ο λαός λέει πως είναι το χρώμα της απελπισίας.”

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“A business can only deliver the value it is capable of delivering; capabilities define the boundaries of business potential.”

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“Time was ticking right now. She had to read. This was the shortest of the six articles. She knew that because for the last hour, she had scrolled through all six, looking at how long they were and figuring out what to read first.”

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“A book is a world constructed with words. But the true miracle in that is how readers enter this world upon opening the book, and then the world remains within the reader after closing it. That miracle is both amazing and terrifying. Indeed, you are what you read. So choose wisely the worlds you get in and the worlds you let in. There is not a hammer that can destroy what is built by the pen.”

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“In writing my forthcoming book, I’ve been reminded that if I ramble through the past long enough, famous personalities are inextricably woven together, and some associations are more surprising than others.”

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