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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Worley Montagu
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Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Mary Schmich
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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all t...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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When you look at a city, it`s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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"Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people ...
David C. McCullough
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When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted
Charles Caleb Colton
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Bernie Hubley
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We shouldn`t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn`t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do m...
Jeanette Winterson
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver
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A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism
Donald Morgan
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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.
James Allen
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
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My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she`s reading.
Steve Jobs
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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. Lewis
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During the past few months, I have become accustomed to reading more and more ludicrous stories about my private life. The simple truth is that I am very happily married, have a wonderful wife and two very special kids. There is nothing that any third par...
David Beckham
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I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction. Right now, my favorite author is p...
Cassie Steele
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I am always ashamed of the slowness of my reading. I think it stems from the fact that when I come across dialogue in a novel, I can`t resist treating it as the text of a play and acting it out, with significant pauses and all.
Alec Guinness
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[on film critics] "There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world o...
George Lucas
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I used to use the Internet a lot, but I got tired of reading all the garbage on there about me. The Internet is just a huge garbage can.
Axl Rose
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A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
Roger Moore
