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“Books are the tickets to faraway places. To adventure and friends everywhere; and the best part is that you can travel the world without even leaving your chair.”

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“People used to read books and watch movies. Now people read memes and tweets and watch GIFs. I'm currently writing something about ducks that I hope you'll say is an instant classic six seconds into the experience.”

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Book:Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
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“When we read, another person thinks for us; we merely repeat his mental process… So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading… he gradually loses the capacity for thinking…such is the case with very many scholars; they have read themselves stupid… Experience of the world may be looked upon as a kind of text, to which reflection and knowledge form the commentary. When there is a great deal of reflection and intellectual knowledge, and very little experience, the result is like those books which have on each page two lines of text to forty lines of commentary.”

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Book:Parerga and Paralipomena
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“આત્મ-સુધારની જાણ એમને જ કરવાની હોય, જેઓ આપણા માટે મહત્વના હોય. આપણી વ્યક્તિગત ઉન્નતિના દર્શન અમૂક ખાસ લોકો જ કરી શકે. આપણી પ્રગતિ, પરિપક્વતા અને પરિવર્તન વિશે દરેકને જાણ કરવી નિરર્થક છે.”

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Author:Dr. Nimit Oza
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