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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#christopher-paolini #eragon #good-reads #life

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. ↗

— Anatole France

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. ↗

— Bill Frist

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It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#long #men #our #parade #proper

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. ↗

— Trent Lott

#easily #established #lasts #never #once

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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