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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Books - Reading
Victor Hugo

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
Words
Aldous Huxley

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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Books - Reading
Holbrook Jackson

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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Diversity
Jesse Jackson

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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Fiction
Henry James

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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
Motives
Henry James

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
Imagination
William James

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
Action
William James

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Man lives for science as well as bread.
Science and Scientists
William James

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
Newspapers
Thomas Jefferson

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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Age and Aging
Thomas Jefferson

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Government
Thomas Jefferson

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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.
Labor
Thomas Jefferson

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
Newspapers
Thomas Jefferson

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Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson

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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Tact and Tactfulness
Sarah Orne Jewett

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Conversation
Samuel Johnson

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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Memory
Samuel Johnson

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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Leaders are readers.
Leaders and Leadership
Charles ''Tremendous'' Jones

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Advice
Erica Jong

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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Age and Aging
Carl Jung

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The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
People
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun