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“Because musical prodigies are always celebrated, early readers aren't. And that's because early readers are only good at something others will eventually be good at, too. So being first isn't special - it's just annoying.”

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Book:Lessons in Chemistry
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Book:[The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!] [By: DeMarco, MJ] [January, 2011]
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“તમે તમારા જીવનમાં મસ્ત અને સંતુષ્ટ હો, એ વાત જગતને સૌથી વધારે ખૂંચે છે. વધુ પડતી આત્મ-નિર્ભરતા ક્યારેક ઈર્ષાનું કારણ બની જાય છે. જો તમે કોઈને નડતા કે કનડતા નથી, તો તમારું એ નિર્લેપપણું સમાજને ખૂંચ્યા કરશે. તમારી આસક્તિ સમાજની આવશ્યક્તા છે. અને એટલે જ તમારી અનાસક્તિ એમના માટે અસહ્ય હોય છે.”

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“No one taught me how to analyse a book, how to read from a safe distance, how not to lose sight of context, how to grasp the things left unsaid. No one taught me about schools of thought or even the ideologies meant to give depth to a mundane story. No one taught me aesthetics, language... All these, I discovered in high school while studying the classics, and broadened this knowledge at the Higher Teachers' Training College in Yaounde, from which I graduated as a French teacher. But I had already developed a habit. All my life, I would read the same way l had started off—intensely, passionately, instinctively—and sentence fragments would stick with me […] Books soothed my soul, made me angry, made me strong. They made me laugh and cry. They pushed me to examine existence with my own mind, to trust my intuition, to stretch my mind to perceive—against the backdrop of characters, nature, and plot—the intricate symphony of time that beams our being to the world. As a child, reading made me feel less lonely, less insignificant, less vulnerable. As an adult, I developed enough discernment to understand that, while reading had not made me a better person, it had made me more levelheaded towards my own motivations, and freer.”

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