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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

– Alfred WhitneyRate it:

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

– JimRate it:

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

– Samuel PatersonRate it:

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

– Sir W. TempleRate it:

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

– Dorothy L. SayersRate it:

Bootless grief hurts a man?s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.

– R ChamberlainRate it:

Bootlickers are ready to stand in a row without shame to bow before him on his arrival and share the stage or podium to extract some undue business favour from him.

– Awakening BeaconingRate it:

Bootlickers rise easily and rapidly through the ladder in the corporate world.

– ProbaerbRate it:

Bootlicking mainstream media is spreading wrong picture of the farmers protest and the foolish viewers are accepting it.

– Raneshwar Sing KishanRate it:

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

– Ambrose BierceRate it:

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

– Oscar WildeRate it:

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

– Benjamin DisraeliRate it:

Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least.

– Lewis WardRate it:

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

– James BridieRate it:

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

– Bertrand RussellRate it:

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

– Thomas SzaszRate it:

Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.

– Søren KierkegaardRate it:

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

– William PhillipsRate it:

Boredom, passivity, stagnation: these are the beginning of mental illness, which propagates itself like the scum on a stagnant pond.

– Colin WilsonRate it:

Born Into Reality Towards Heaven this is your birth right because we were all born from the same source and because we were born into our bodies. Therefore everyone is ascended equally.

– Heather Lydia ThornhillRate it:

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

– Alexis de TocquevilleRate it:

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

– Doug HortonRate it:

Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

– Charles LambRate it:

Borrowing money from a bank is sometimes like borrowing money from your children.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

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