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“To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.”

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Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is an American author born in 1949. Her works span various genres, including literary criticism, poetry, and prose. McEntyre is known for her profound literary insights and elegant prose. more

“I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Writing Trying Children Littles Doe Book Reading Given Pleasure Emotion Reader Adults Greatest Pleasures

Author:Joseph Joubert

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”

Humans Book Character Lovers Paper Pages Absence Human Relations Human Relationships Book Lover

Author:Tahereh Mafi

“In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'”

Book Reading Judged Founders Academy

Author:Maryrose Wood

“The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of generate markets means that disposibility and waste have become the spine of the system. To consume means, literally, to destroy or expend, and in the garbage crisis we confront the underlying truth of a society in which enormous productive capacities and market forces have harnessed human needs and desires, without regard to the long or even short-term future of life on the planet.”

Source: All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture

“In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.”

Plans Percent Garbage Recycling

Author:Michael E. Mann

“When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.”

Speech Inevitable Streams Ashamed Fatigue Recycling Vortex

Author:Barbara Amiel

“Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.”

Ifs Environment Movement Gay Ecology Recycling

Author:Martina Navratilova

“It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.”

Hard Paper Plastic Recycling

Author:Richard Karn

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