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125 Literate quotes by 119 unique authors

Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you… — Eloisa James
Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle… — Hamza Yusuf
My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down,… — Kate Morton
Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the… — Gary Shteyngart
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."… — Malcolm Gladwell
A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor… — Jim Trelease
Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented. — Anthony Horowitz
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history -… — Teju Cole
To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the… — George Packer
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics… — F. Sionil Jose
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had… — Said Sayrafiezadeh
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was… — Noam Chomsky
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very… — Eleanor Catton
For me, the most important and distinguishing property of new media is interactivity. But how many people can actually create interactive games, animations, or simulations?… — Mitchel Resnick
At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at… — Peter Diamandis
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into… — J M Roberts
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my… — James Tobin
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to… — David Crystal
He is forced to be literate about the illiterate, witty about the witless and coherent about the incoherent. — John Crosby
One need not be an entrepreneur to be greatly financially literate but one need be financially literate to be a great entrepreneur. — Tsepiso Makhubedu
You need to be financially literate if you want to obtain wealth in this lifetime. — Tsepiso Makhubedu
Just write your name does not become literate but learning a literacy campaign in India to receive the entirety of the logo — Mak_786
Obedience deepens our intimacy with Jesus. If we want to know the Father, we must not only love Him, but also obey Him. Scripture is… — John Wimber
Ode to Dad: My dad was a Father to the whole block. There were only two Dads on the block, mine and another girls. When… — Keshia M Williams
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, onlyone national hero; and we demand that… — Ellen Glasgow

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