These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

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• Gilbert Highet:

  Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death.

• Gilbert Highet:

  A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

• Gilbert Highet:

  A good teacher is a determined person.

• Gilbert Highet:

  The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

• Gilbert Highet:

  The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enr

• Gilbert Highet:

  Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are

• Konrad Zuse:

  It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

• Konrad Zuse:

  You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

• Konrad Zuse:

  I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

• Ely Culbertson:

  The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are mete