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«Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | About: Books | Keywords: Action The, waste paper
«If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.»
Author: Tony Benn (Politician) | Keywords: basket, fifty, file, filed, files, file in, filing, library, public libraries, public library, waste-paper basket, waste basket, waste paper
«Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!»
Author: Les Brown (Author, Entrepreneur, motivational speaker) | Keywords: on paper, waste paper
«Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Feelings | Keywords: afire, hot, ink, inked, inking, labor, on paper, paper, pen, print, results, setting, set afire, wasted, waste paper
«The newspapers have a great role to play; but they are content to cater to the vulgar tastes and become waste papers soon.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: cater, catering, papers, waste paper
«How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: bathtub, cashier, cashiers, closing, colleague, incomprehensibility, irregularly, pipe, rival, shaped, the good old days, The Standard, unfavorably, waste paper, waste pipe
«Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: Action The, asleep, peevishness, repair, repair to, waste paper
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