"Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet."

-- Sean Wilentz

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“The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.”

Source : Marcus Buckingham (2008). “The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“I love every second of being a mom.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillion tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillion, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of color.”

Source : Maurice Thompson (2008). “Alice of Old Vincennes (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.”
“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.”
“In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.”

Source : 1923 Speech against the withdrawal of child benefits, including the supply of milk, in Scotland. In Hansard, 27 Jun.
“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”

Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2012). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.35, Courier Corporation
“A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.”

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