"Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it."

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Source : Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.29, Penguin

Jim Trelease

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“Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.”
“I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.”

Source : William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”
“The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!”
“[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation...”
“Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.”
“She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say.”
“The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.”
“If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.”

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