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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Jacques Derrida
African
Also
Bad
Even
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
Robertson Davies
Actually
Almost
Anybody
Best
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
Robertson Davies
Age
Book
Depends
Experience
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At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.
Jamaica Kincaid
Adored
Associate
Enormous
Everyone
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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
Jamaica Kincaid
Does
Essentially
Loneliness
Lonely
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
Henry Ward Beecher
Temperate zone
Mind
Luxurious indolence
Work
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There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
Ron Chernow
Approaching
Baby
Boom
Discovered
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Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.
Herb Brooks
Write
Won book
Reading
Success
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
Horace Greeley
Impossible
Enslave
Mentally
Human freedom
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
Rosanne Cash
About
Am
American
Another
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Russell Crowe
Factor
Get
Reading
Than
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Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.
Russell Crowe
About
Family
Get
Immediate
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
James Joyce
Demand
Devote
He
His
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce
Committed
English
Ever
Explains
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The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.
Rudolf Steiner
Arithmetic
Important
ImportantThing
Lives
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The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.
Rudolf Steiner
Based
Basis
Become
Build
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison
Any
Apt
Classes
Fill
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Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.
James Taylor
Began
Control
Get
Out
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Strive Masiyiwa
To literacy
Reading
Writing
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Abubakar Suleiman
Work harder
Seek guidance
Mentorship programs
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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
Alain de Botton
What makes
Book
Good
Reading it
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Reading the minds of people is simple to me.
Al Alvarez
Reading
Minds
People
Simple
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I believe what I write to be the truth,every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.
Alexander Herzen
Believe
The truth
Every man
Indifferent
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
Alfred de Vigny
Perform
Heavy task
Treading
Fate
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What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
Alice James
What sense
Superiority
Escape reading
Some book
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
Alice Hoffman
The joy
Reading fiction
The novel
Belongs
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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
Anatole Broyard
Like
Book
Slowly
Read
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I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Andy Warhol
Social disease
Go out
Every night
Stay home
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What the current Covid-19 situation teaches us, is to be each other’s keeper in ensuring that we halt or slow down the process of spreading the infection.
Rebecca Akufo-Addo
The current
Situation
Teaches us
Other's keeper
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Reading exposes us to virtues such as discipline, hard work, honesty, fairness, gratitude and many more. So go on, start reading.
Rebecca Akufo-Addo
Reading
Exposes us
Virtues
Discipline
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A focus on our young ones to make reading a habit is vital for their own growth and development.
Rebecca Akufo-Addo
A focus
Young ones
Make reading
Habit
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
Anthony Trollope
Can read
Be happy
Great blessing
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess
Possession
Book
Substitute
Reading
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
Written
Poetry
Reading
Destroyed
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading
Equivalent
Thinking
Someone else
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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle
Ask
Influenced
Me
Digested
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb
Reading
Silent
Conversation
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Together, we can stop the virus from spreading, save lives and build back better!
Tedros Adhanom
Together
Can stop
The virus
From spreading
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Only by helping each other can we stop this virus from spreading,
Tedros Adhanom
By helping
Each other
We stop
This virus
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Washing your hands is one of the most effective ways to stop COVID19 spreading, but that is not possible for many of the three billion people without access to water and soap in their homes.
Tedros Adhanom
Washing
Your hands
Effective ways
To stop
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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.
Claire Danes
Like reading
Provides
Insight
Human behavior
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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
Cornelia Funke
The character
Reading
Printed page
More real
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
Diane Arbus
Most people
Through life
Dreading
Traumatic experience
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My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.
Dorothy Day
My strength
Returns to
The reading
The psalms
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My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.
Snoop Dogg
My liberty
About living
Spreading
More love
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Been reading a lot of books. It’s changing my life you know.
Bolanle Olukanni
Been reading
Books
It's changing
My life
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Muhammad Ali’s legacy outside the ring as an unapologetic champion for black pride and as a symbol for the civil rights movement makes profound reading today.
Bianca Nobilo
Legacy
Unapologetic champion
Black pride
Reading today
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I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
Eric Schmidt
Believe
Reading
Book
Learn
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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
Man
Reading
Alive
Book
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Ezra Pound
One
Reading
Man
Keys
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