If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in… — William Law Copy Share Image
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
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[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he's actually read all those… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme… — Sonya Sones Copy Share Image
I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic'… — Sophie Hunger Copy Share Image
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“Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
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I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter.… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
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Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing,… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“sejarah menjadikan orang bijaksana, puisi menjadikan orang fasih lidah, matematika menjadikan orang cerdik, filsafat menyebabkan orang berpikir dalam, moral menjadikan orang bersikap… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can,… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
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reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Reading Myself" Like thousands I took just pride and more than just, struck matches that brought my blood to a boil; I… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
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It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment… — George Muller Copy Share Image
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