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Much reading
is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural
candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in
the world.
-- William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious
Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania
Five daily
newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York
times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three
local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim,
Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week,
Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing
Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High
Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I
religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern
Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I
devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The
Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A
dozen or more each month.
-- Thomas J. Peters
1942-, American Management
Consultant, Author, Trainer
I divide all
readers into two classes: those who read to remember and
those who read to forget.
-- William Lyon Phelps
What gunpowder
did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
-- Wendell Phillips
1811-1884, American Reformer,
Orator
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No one can
read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with
pleasure.
-- Noah Porter
No man
understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least
part of its contents.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet,
Critic
With one day's
reading a man may have the key in his hands.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet,
Critic
Properly, we
should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely
alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet,
Critic
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