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• Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women

  Sivananda

  Heart, Men, Voice

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Eye, Desire

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Humble, Fire

  "Why Do Christians Fast? Three Reasons Explained by St. Thomas Aquinas" by Gretchen Filz, www.catholiccompany.com. March 23, 2017.

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• First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

  Nicholson Baker

  Criticism, Want, Way

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Morning, Real, Book

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• I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.

  Nicholson Baker

  Amazon, Site, Banner

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Long, May

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1969). “Retrospectives and Conclusions”

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• Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

  Nicholson Baker

  Thinking, Should, Force

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Night, Hands

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.

  Nicholson Baker

  Cute, Names, Forgiving

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

  Marco Arment

  Ipads, Doe, Reason

  "Instapaper inventor links inattentive reading to information obesity" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.

  Lisa Gardner

  Book, Numbers, Answers

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• The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Gun

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• Every attempt to reflect upon the Atonement, to study it, to embrace it, to express appreciation for it, however small or feeble it may be, will kindle the fires of faith and work its miracle towards a more Christlike life. It is an inescapable consequence of so doing. We become like those things we habitually love and admire. And thus, as we study Christ’s life and live his teachings, we become more like him.

  Tad R. Callister

  Appreciation, Teaching, Fire

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• a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

  Madame de Stael

  Perfect, Soul, Pieces

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• I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

  Richard Baxter

  Expectations, Heaven, Soul

  Richard BAXTER (1829). “Converse with God in Solitude, etc”, p.53

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• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hero, Men, Light

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

  Henry George

  Flames, Ideas, Torches

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

  David Hume

  Men, Vanity, Flames

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• Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Integrity, Adversity, Enemy

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• Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

  George Herbert

  Fire, Great Ones

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

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• At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Education, Teacher, Encouragement

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• I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  Book, Hands, Smell

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• Seeing Pretty Little Liars fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity.

  Sara Shepard

  Liars, Thinking, Offering

  "Amazon licenses fan fiction ebooks" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2013.

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