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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.


Emily Greene Balch


#backward #characteristic #communities #more #nationalism

Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite, Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my “plan” was for taking down the Christmas tree.


Tina Fey


#reading #love

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.


M. H. Abrams


#easy #easy reading #hard #hard work #least

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.


Chinua Achebe


#converts #different #different parts #early #father

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.


A. R. Ammons


#besides #class #differs #discourse #everything

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.


Avi Arad


#again #being #books #bothered #dealing

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.


Irving Babbitt


#collapse #day #his #lazy #most

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.


Dave Barry


#column #crazy #declining #fact #good

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.


Russell Baker


#age #back #carries #good #had

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.


Robert T. Bakker


#diseases #during #everywhere #extinction #land






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