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I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#courses #did #english #english literature #figured

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#cliff #down #jumping #living #off

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#complete #country #decide #democracy #education

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty. ↗

— Donald Evans

#country #creating #debate #economic #economic growth

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#could #got #kind #kinds #leader

We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#around #big #cell #cell phones #come

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment. ↗

— Donald Evans

#america #attack #death #defining #defining moment

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet. ↗

— Charles Bradlaugh

#christians #crawl #feet #follow #i

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#encourages #envision #explore #fiction #futures

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#cousins #degree #doing #found #friend