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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

Time, Book, Find

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Creative, Reading

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, Days, Either

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison

Men, Made, Cannot

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Men, Fact

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

Age, Trust, Best

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life, Understand, Why

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Important, Living

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
Marilyn Monroe

Hurt, Sometimes, Tell

I read poetry to save time.
Marilyn Monroe

Time, Poetry, Save

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, May, Chance

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
Billy Graham

Last, Turn, Bible

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
Eminem

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau

Done, Speak, Write

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau

Women, Gossip, Old

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
Eminem

Saying, Sit, Internet

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho Marx

America, Started, Stuff

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein

Government, End, May

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Jim Rohn

Yourself, Problem, Here

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw

Books, Nobody, Except

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn

May, Easy, Stuff

The book you don't read won't help.
Jim Rohn

Help, Book, Won

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates

Dreams, Great, Chance

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire

Two, Dance, Harm

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Will Rogers

Ignorance, Papers, Alibi

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch Hedberg

Children, Book, Kid

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Beautiful, Seen

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa

Rock, Talk, Write

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
Brad Thor

Freedom, Live, Powerful

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