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#literate

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I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.


David Antin


#between #distinctions #i #i am #literate

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.


Jeffrey Archer


#entering #illiterate #people #per #prison

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.


Roger Bacon


#brain #count #easiest #fact #how

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.


Robertson Davies


#anyone #books #ever #heard #i

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.


Ann Druyan


#decisions #democracy #economy #intelligence #literate

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.


Louis L'Amour


#education #life-lessons #literacy #literate-culture #reading

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.


James Buchan


#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.


Kenzaburo Oe


#abroad #along #article #attempts #been

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.


Elisabeth Shue


#being #books #campuses #come #ever

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.


Debra Winger


#give #give me #granted #great #i






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