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

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world bec...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates i...

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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the tradition...

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More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, ...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing g...

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.