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As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.


James Gleick

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JAMES BLACK 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ...
JAMES WOLCOTT To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ...
JAMES HORNER I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe...
LILY JAMES Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go...
JAMES SUROWIECKI I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ...
JAMES MCAVOY Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
JAMES CAMERON There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what...
JAMES PATTERSON As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si...
JAMES LONGSTREET When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt....
JAMES SUROWIECKI Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi...
JAMES MADISON The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ...
JAMES MADISON The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der...
JAMES MADISON The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an...
JAMES MADISON Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
JAMES MADISON