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What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

– Carl Sagan, CosmosRate it:

What an elephant never forgets isn't worth knowing in the first place.

– John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.comRate it:

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

– Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsRate it:

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

– August StrindbergRate it:

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

– Edgar QuinetRate it:

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

– Christopher MarloweRate it:

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

– Andrew SchneiderRate it:

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?

– William Simpson, A.C.L.U.Rate it:

What are the (4) greatest tragedies in life? 1) To commit unjust behaviors, acts. 2)To cause unjust harm to someone or something. 3) To fall victim to injustice. 4) To suffer unjust pain.

– Ryan PackRate it:

What are the 4 stages of life? 1) Moral stage, this stage is the most vital of all the stages. This stage is devoted entirely to becoming a just human being. There's always room for improvement, never stop improving yourself. 2) Academic stage, this stage is devoted entirely to education, to becoming the smartest version of yourself that you can be. Never stop learning. 3) Athletic stage, always take care of your health. Always try to be healthy. Be as healthy and athletic as you can be. 4) Enjoy the fruits of your labor stage, this is the stage where you get as much peace and happiness as you can from all your hard labor.

– Ryan PackRate it:

What are the guidelines for choosing the size and strength of the chain links utilized to retain 'keystones'?

– Francis M. Faber Jr.Rate it:

What are you seeking? Spiritual Health or Monetary Wealth? While the latter will dissolve, the former will make you evolve!

– RVMRate it:

What are you willing to change your life

– Branden CondyRate it:

What are you willing to change your life.

– Branden CondyRate it:

What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

– C. S. LewisRate it:

What attract the eyes, the heart loves and the mind like.

– Sipho P NkosiRate it:

What attracts a man’s attention does not guarantee his respect.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

What avails your wealth, if it makes you arrogant to the poor?

– Arabic ProverbRate it:

What benefit will I gain from knowing the clockwise and counter-clockwise phenomena? Either way, they boil down to nothing, or will eventually cancel each other out.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

What benefit will I get if I know one book from cover to cover? —Isn’t this filling my mind with the ideas of others and losing creativity?!

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

– Harold RosenbergRate it:

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

– Swedish ProverbRate it:

What breaks the heart, adjust the mind.

– Sipho P NkosiRate it:

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love.

– Saint Alfred of RievaulxRate it:

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