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ours are the only farmers who can read Homer — Thomas Jefferson
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs… — Hugh Mackay
There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em. — Kevin Welch
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. — Abraham Lincoln
We read to know we are not alone. — C.S. Lewis
It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. — Denis Parsons Burkitt
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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… — Marilyn Jager Adams
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. — Mark Twain
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young… — William James
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie dePaola
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by… — Edwin Paxton Hood
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S I Hayakawa
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on… — Harry Golden
Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies.… — Mitchel Resnick
The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game. — Samuel Eto'o

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