Quotes 15421 till 15440 of 25602.
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
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Reality is a formless lure,
And only when we know this
Do we dare to be unreal.Source: Advice To a Pool
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