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• One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

  ― Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

  ― Branford Marsalis
  American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

  ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  ― Groucho Marx
  American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  Source: The New Yorker April 7, 1956

  ― A. J. Liebling
  American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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• People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt

  Source: Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006)

  ― Bill Allred
  American musician (1936 - )
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• Pilot season after pilot season, I read the same part: the wife who rolls her eyes at her somewhat immature husband that she still loves. Literally.

  ― Beth Littleford
   
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• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  ― Arthur C. Clarke
  British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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• Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.

  ― Benjamin Hoff
  American author (1946 - )
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• Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
  To read it well: that is, to understand.

  Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2.

  ― Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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• Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

  ― Edward. E. Cummings
  American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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• Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

  ― Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

  ― Malcolm X
  American activist (1925 - 1965)
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• Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

  ― George Holbrook Jackson
  British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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• Read good, big important things.

  ― Peggy Noonan
  American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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• Read in order to live.

  ― Gustave Flaubert
  French writer (1821 - 1880)
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• Read much, but not many books.

  ― Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Read my lips: no new taxes.

  ― George H.W. Bush
  American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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• practically
• literature
• everywhere
• newspapers

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