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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
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1960
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
Rest
Men
Three
Reading
Few
Kinds
Observation
Learn
Learns
Fence
Them
Themselves
Electric
Who
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Writing
Worth
Reading
Worth Reading
Something
Write
Either
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Education
Good
Thoughts
Writing
Training
World
Animals
Feelings
Reading
Other
Others
Our
Earth
Would
Would-Be
Fact
Part
Empathize
Empathy
Arithmetic
How
Were
Maybe
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In Fact
Formal
Formal Education
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Should
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Imagine
Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
Colin Powell
Education
Family
Self-Respect
Commitment
Reading
Duty
Caring
System
Jobs
Civic
More
Only
High-Quality
Fairness
Learn
Math
Get
Children
Want
Gain
Them
Avoid
Deserve
Violence
Need
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
Gillian Anderson
Hope
Good
Day
You
Change
Good Day
Opportunity
Reading
Every
Everyone
Minute
Having
New
Know
Passes
Just
Really
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
Health
You
Reading
Books
Be Careful
About
Die
May
Careful
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.
Phylicia Rashad
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Kitchen
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Powerful Thing
Come
Around
Making
Same
Sitting
Any
Intention
Happens
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Preparing
Thing
Cards
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
Man
Writing
Reading
Exact
Maketh
Ready
Conference
Full
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S Truman
Great
Victory
Men
First
Reading
Great Men
Over
Self-Discipline
Came
Won
Them
Themselves
Found
Lives
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David Bailey
Best
Knowledge
Knowledge Is Power
Power
Advice
Reading
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Keep
Ever
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