"Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy."

-- Barack Obama

#Kids Quotes #Library Quotes #Literacy Quotes

“All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.”

Source : John Banville (2011). “Shroud”, p.12, Pan Macmillan
“The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.”
“Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.”

Source : Adam Kokesh Calls For 'New American Revolution' by Paul Joseph Watson, www.infowars.com. May 24, 2013.
“For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.”
“They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.”
“Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.”
“Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.”
“Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.”

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