"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word."
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"A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally."
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"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read."
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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
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"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
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"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
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"Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood."
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"From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.""
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"... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context."
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"I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in."
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"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope."
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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
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"He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one."
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"That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading."
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
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