"My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to continue to learn and to grow, but it's got to be balanced with fun and with elective reading. Whether that's comic books or Jane Austen, if it makes you excited about reading, that's what matters."

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Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

Emma Walton Hamilton

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“Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.”
“If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.”
“Everyone thinks softball is a girl's game. But you only think that until you get hit with it on a line drive.”
“It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.”
“Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.”
“Don't hate the media, become the media.”

Source : "Political punk Jello Biafra takes verbal aim". Interview with Phil Cauthon, www2.ljworld.com. April 18, 2003.
“As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.”

Source : Source: techland.time.com
“The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.”

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