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The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be… — King Hussein I
Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read? — Jim Rohn
Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of… — Henry David Thoreau
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard
I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and… — John Conyers
There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed… — Eli Broad
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a… — Thomas Paine
While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts of… — Alexander Hamilton
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could… — Patrick Henry
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see… — Howard Zinn
The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be… — Susan Cooper
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect… — Paul Eldridge
It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any… — Mark Twain
Read good, big important things. — Peggy Noonan
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,… — Horace Mann
The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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