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I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve! — Milton Berle
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look. — Theophile Gautier
Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read… — William Blake
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears,… — Mahatma Gandhi
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read… — Robertson Davies
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is… — Ivan Stang
I recently read that Arnold Schwarzenegger collects Hummers. Now we know why Maria's face is frozen in that puckered position. — Brad Wilkerson
In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To… — Rajneesh
If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your… — Rajneesh
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to… — Thomas Jefferson
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure. — Woodrow Wilson
Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed. — Douglas MacArthur
The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold!… — Napoleon Bonaparte
If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can… — Thomas Merton
Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the… — Gerry Hunsicker
At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries… — Kevin Mattson
There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a… — Geoffrey Nunberg
A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to… — David Leonhardt
I have never read it. You should not waste your time. — Kenneth Clarke
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition… — John Maynard Keynes

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