#reads

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. ↗

— Plutarch

#benefits #destroyer #donations #liberties #people

I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much. ↗

— James Purefoy

#because #divided #go #hollywood #i

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#how #lenin #marx #reads #someone

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices. ↗

— Rick Reilly

#german #going #i #i write #nobody

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#about #computer #ever #everything #garbage

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#better #better person #child #entertained #fiction

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. ↗

— George Murray

#hits #other #poets #reads #reality

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. ↗

— Washington Irving

#communion #contact #dignity #dreads #healthful

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#educated #man #newspapers #nothing #reads

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#any #code #going #learn #like