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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
Management
Dean Acheson

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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Quotations
Amos Bronson Alcott

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Books - Reading
Isaac Asimov

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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Books - Reading
Stan Barstow

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Books - Reading
Charles Baudelaire

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle

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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Books - Reading
William Cobbett

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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Epitaphs
Cyril Connolly

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Books - Reading
Robert Frost

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Books - Reading
W. Fusselman

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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
Writers and Writing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
Newspapers
William Randolph Hearst

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

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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Ambiguity
Abraham Lincoln

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Books - Reading
Harriet Martineau

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Books - Reading
William Lyon Phelps

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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Critics and Criticism
Friedrich Schlegel

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Books - Reading
Steven Spielberg

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Congress
Mark Twain

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Books - Reading
Raoul Vaneigem

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