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The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones… — George Matthew Adams
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read… — Peter Drucker
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet,… — Thomas Starr King
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you… — Feist
Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless… — Robert Grudin
Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put… — Scott Adams
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient… — Neil Postman
Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and… — John Bunyan
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to… — James Russell Lowell
As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without… — James Keller
We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a… — James Keller
Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed. — Mark Twain
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist… — Gideon Haigh
We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time. — Andrew O'Hagan
All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own… — Elwyn Brooks White
I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read. — Nina Blackwood
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has… — Edith Hall
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the… — Edith Hall
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have — Irwin Shaw
First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather… — Hal Abelson
I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as… — Julia Glass
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity... — A. Edward Newton
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis

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