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Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs,… — Jeffrey Sachs
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were… — Oprah Winfrey
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'. — Daniel Handler
Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or… — Susan Sontag
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come… — Barack Obama
...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them,… — Barack Obama
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my… — Ed Bradley
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
I'm wondering what to read next. — Roald Dahl
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. — Mark Twain
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a… — Edward Kennedy
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others. — Denis Diderot
If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours. — Paris Hilton
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others. — Leonardo da Vinci
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make… — George Carlin
Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which… — Abraham Lincoln
To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to… — Abraham Lincoln

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