"Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read much doesn't know much. And a nation that doesn't know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth...The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns."

Source : Jim Trelease (2001). “The Read-aloud Handbook”, Alloybooks

Jim Trelease

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“Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.”
“Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.”
“I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.”

Source : Statement given by William Joyce under caution (May 31, 1945) as quoted in "The Trial of William Joyce" edited by J. W. Hall (p. 58), 1946.
“Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true”

Source : "MAC Marcel Wanders Collection". Q&A, www.temptalia.com. November 16, 2010.
“There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.”
“I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.”
“We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.”
“[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.”

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