"If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none."

-- Joan Aiken

#Children Quotes #Reading Quotes #Mean Quotes

“In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds.”
“It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again. ... There is no deadline for equality in our society.”
“No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.”
“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

Source : James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, Xist Publishing
“People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.”
“Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.”
“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

Source : President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.
“Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice .”

Source : "Anthology (Book 4)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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