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Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.


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LYNN COADY To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of educat...
ALEISTER CROWLEY We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable t...
PAUL LUTUS Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth read...
SUSAN SONTAG What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
JAMES T. MCCAY Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.
RON BRACKIN Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece...
JOHN MORLEY As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to ...
AMOR TOWLES If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
GABRIELLE DUBOIS Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to ...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. Bu...
JOSE FERREIRA It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age ...
GUY DEBORD The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A book worth reading is worth buying.
JOHN RUSKIN Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading i...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of ...
ALEISTER CROWLEY To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of educat...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.
AMAN JASSAL It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK, WISDOM AND DESTINY It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK There, I guess King George will be able to read that. [Remark on signing American Declaration of Ind...
JOHN HANCOCK You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second nove...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER Education is the key to a better economy and a controlled population. Until now, the world blamed In...
BIKRAM SEN How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I'...
JOHN GOULD Macaulay is well for a while, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
THOMAS CARLYLE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
JOHN RUSKIN To start speaking my language start reading what I read... start reading what I have written. Listen...
DEYTH BANGER There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what ...
ROSS PEROT It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
C.S. LEWIS You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire o...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
CHRISTIAN BAUMAN My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.
ROBYN DAVIDSON Reading is a major way to engage in self-education
SUNDAY ADELAJA I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
BILL WILLINGHAM For younger students, parents should spend time reading to them and listening to them read, then ask...
BARBARA HARVEY One of the poems is about George Bush, but I had no time to read it.
BAKHTIAR AMIN What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unabl...
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unabl...
G. K. CHESTERTON It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpr...
MIKE TYSON I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the ...
LAURA LEE GUHRKE The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history...
G. M. TREVELYAN Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an invest...
KILROY J. OLDSTER One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy...
JANE AUSTEN We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.
"Yes," I sai...
SARAH DESSEN The single act of reading books alone does not automatically make anyone a leader. To lead, we must ...
EBENEZER O. AKINRINADE What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that ...
TED RALL 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the ...
EKNATH EASWARAN Don't just read to read. Read to understand.
JILL TELFORD A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating ...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habi...
CHARLES EISENSTEIN More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived ...
MARTIN JACQUES (Population aging) is just never worth much as an explanation. Over a 10 to 20 year period, it's a b...
JACK RODGERS Desire for books, desire to read.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful
SYDNEY SMITH You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
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THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Romans were like brothers / In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, bee...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy libert...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to li...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so val...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at si...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exagg...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbou...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most dem...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Everybody's business is nobody's business.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And th...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his ...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoun...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fas...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Boswell is the first of biographers
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY