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Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know… — David Crystal
Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. — Geoff Nicholson
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality… — Walter Brueggemann
Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that… — Kevin Vanhoozer
The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction.… — George Steiner
We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make… — Albert Finney
Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties. — David Haye
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for… — Glenn Ligon
Our children should be indoctrinated in the principles of the Gospel from their earliest childhood. They should be made familiar with the contents of the… — Wilford Woodruff
Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original — Charles Spurgeon
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. — David Antin
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare… — Christopher Logue
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. — Kenzaburo Oe
There's nothing wrong with sending a quick note if you're busy or just want to flirt, but it's hard to have any real interaction over… — Greg Behrendt
The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anyone… — Malcolm X
If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience. — D. A. Carson
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its… — James Russell Lowell
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do… — Walt Whitman

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