#read

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#armament #defend #defense #faith #machines

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay. ↗

— Larisa Oleynik

#hell #i #incorrect #pay #reads

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#culture #humor #love-of-reading #reading #sports

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul. ↗

— James Otis

#desolation #different #different emotions #emotions #every

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. ↗

— Seymour Papert

#create #invention #knowledge #provide #rather

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region. ↗

— Paracelsus

#bread #country #different #earth #everything

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#even #five #i #i write #pages

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#boredom #chief #deepening #product #sense

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it. ↗

— Sean Paul

#even #eye #get #important #important tool

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#ears #eyes #hear #our #poem