The ever intrepid and increasingly anthropomorphic Google has counted all of the books in the world. The total is currently 129,864,880. Since this is a difficult number to remember, I have decided to write 135, 120 books, just to round things out.

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If you object to a mosque near Ground Zero on the grounds that we were attacked by Islam, you grant the terrorists the mantle of Islam. That is a victory they would cherish, and one which we should strenuously deny them.

However, if there's not enough parking, forget it.   

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston.

Oh wait. I knew that.  

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There must be a man behind the book; a personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise; holding things because they are things. If he can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind,- the burden of truth to be ...

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