"As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this."

-- Walter Dean Myers

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“I like how glasses suggest intelligence instead of broken eyes.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 29, 2012
“It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.”
“The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.”
“Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.”

Source : Sir William PETTY (1769). “Tracts chiefly relating to Ireland, etc”, p.23
“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.”
“Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.”
“Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.”
“At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.”

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