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Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. — Holbrook Jackson
Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In… — Sherman Alexie
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten
Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count… — Merle Haggard
I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous… — Delta Burke
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was… — Samuel West
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much… — Louise Brown
You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm. — Tony Evans
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score… — Jerome Robbins
Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like… — Jack Handey
Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta. For all her… — Jack Handey
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually… — Greg Laurie
If we could read minds, we wouldn't need headsets. — Unknown Author
. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out… — Unknown Author
The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him. — Victor Hugo
The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. — Spike Milligan
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a… — Aldous Huxley
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its… — Robert M. Hutchins

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