"Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often."
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"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
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"If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid"
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"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
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"The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise."
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"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
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"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
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"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
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"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
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"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."
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"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
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"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible."
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
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"Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge."
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"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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"Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life."
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"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
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"There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day."
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"My alma mater was books, a good library."
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