Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet."
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Alphabet
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Marilyn Jager Adams
Author
"The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness."
Dennis Miller
Comedian
"I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet."
Irving Stone
Author
"Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty."
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"The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement."
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"By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds."
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"The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves."
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"You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours."
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"All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other."
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"Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet."
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"It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet."
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"The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures."
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"They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt."
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"The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary."
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"I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A.""
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"The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else."
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"Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet."
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"Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size."
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"Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children."
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