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“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.”

“It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.”

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Author:Lucy Stone

“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.”

“I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.”

Thinking Wells Long Self Young Girl Wish Sides Known Doubt Effects Late Twenties Insecurity Lasting Self-doubt Side Effects Long Lasting Tweens Late Twenties

Author:Deborah Reber

“The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.”

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Author:David Burnett

“To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.”

Thinking Years America Past Wish Football Twenties Bowls Suggestions Over The Past Super Bowl Death Wish Sumptuous

Author:Don DeLillo

“When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. And if I have a chance to matter to the growth and hopes and wishes of little girls, that's something I can't take lightly. So I do factor them in when I'm thinking about what to wear, and what to say, and whether or not to go out to bars even thought I'm not twenty-one.”

Ifs Thinking Years Littles Said I Can Matter Girl Wish Growth Chance Opinion Twenties My Favorite Singers Bars Factors Twenty One Favorite Singer

Author:Taylor Swift

“Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.”

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Author:George Carlin

“Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.”

Ifs Years Book Wish Twenties Library Paris Lectures Public Library

Book:Translations from the Russian

Source: Translations from the Russian

“The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.”

Years Mind Ideas Reality Happens Courses Wish Realizing Loses Memories Influence Taste Illusion Twenties Likes Dislike Crowded Of My Mind Year One Likes And Dislikes

Author:Willa Cather

“I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.”

Important Book Home House Wish Sea Minutes Taste Thousand Twenties Library Granted League Bliss Brown Camps Bicycle Rushing Baskets Bunnies Library Books Devouring

Author:Eudora Welty

“Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.”

Has Beens Moments Helping Wish Twenties Finals Pace Unkind

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.”

Knows Men Should Moments Faces Names Wish Hours My Own Forever Four Streets Men And Women Letters Twenties Glasses This Day Should I

Book:Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

“I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?”

Years Children Long Care Earth Past Suffering Wish Loses Forget Twenties Sorry Graves My Children Rejoice Long Ago I Care Wretched Heathcliff Forget Me

Author:Emily Bronte

“[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that is the very meaning of scientific work. ... Every scientific "fulfillment" raises new "questions" and cries out to be surpassed rendered obsolete. Everyone who wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this.”

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Book:The Vocation Lectures

Source: The Vocation Lectures

“It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.”

Men Children Littles Age Pain Wish Five Saws Cutting Conditions Duty Drink Six Machines Twenties London Coffee Cups Squares Accustomed Indulgence Crippled Papa Leicester

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.”

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Author:Bill Ayers

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