Barack Obama Quotes, Reading Quotes, Decision Quotes

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Reading Quotes

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

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How well he's read, to reason against reading!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Reading Quotes , Reason Quotes

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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