Colleagues

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." -Will Rogers

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"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading." -Mike Tyson

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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." -Rene Descartes

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

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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." -Ray Bradbury

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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." -Ray Bradbury

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"What is reading, but silent conversation." -Charles Lamb

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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

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"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life." -Charles de Gaulle

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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -Joseph Addison

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“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” -A C Grayling

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“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” -Austin Phelps

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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” -Confucius

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“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.” -Descartes

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“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” -Edmund Burke

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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.” -Francis Bacon

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” -Groucho Marx

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“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.” -Lyndon Baines Johnson

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“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.” -Madonna

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“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.” -Mark Twain

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“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” -Mary Schmich

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“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.” -Martin Tupper

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“A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending.” -Mick Foley

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“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” -Mortimer Adler

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“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.” -Walt Disney

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“What is reading but silent conversation?” -Walter Savage Landor

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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