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Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.
– Richard de Bury

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  2. Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. – Idries Shah
  3. We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t. – Jeanette Winterson
  4. Do you know what we Turks think is the best Turkish delight? The Turkish woman. She is the best Turkish delight. – Carol Vorvain
  5. Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind. – Steven Poore
  6. In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. – Josh Malerman
  7. Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear. – Yogi Kanna
  8. So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are. – William Jay
  9. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
  10. The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. – Ross Macdonald
  11. There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music. – James Weldon Johnson
  12. There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music. – James Weldon Johnson
  13. Great books live longer than people.They are gonna bury us all. – Patricia Nedelea
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  15. Cats aren’t as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they’re just big rats. – Richard House
  16. It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built. – Paul Bamikole
  17. God uses His people as instruments for breakthrough – Sunday Adelaja
  18. The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you – Sunday Adelaja
  19. if all of life were an illusion then the instruments science would use to measure reality could not be depended upon. – Chuck Bridges
  20. We shouldn’t use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom – Sunday Adelaja
  21. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. – James Madison
  22. Scripture is one of many instruments to attain the Goal (experience of pure Soul). How can it be discarded? – Dada Bhagwan
  23. Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal? – Dada Bhagwan
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  25. The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello. – Nicholas Christopher
  26. Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war. – Bryant McGill
  27. Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way. – Kim Kiyosaki
  28. Good friends are divine instruments. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  29. Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes. – Simone de Beauvoir
  30. Each of us has a tongue and a voice. These instruments of speech can be used destructively or employed constructively. – Billy Graham
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  32. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us. – William Shakespeare
  33. The children of God are His instruments on the earth. – Sunday Adelaja
  34. I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard. – John Wesley
  35. Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments. – Neil Gaiman
  36. Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation – Miguel Reynolds Brandao
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  38. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
  39. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  40. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter

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