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"Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live."
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"Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books."
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"Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it's a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing."
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"Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy."
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"I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be developed, no man's moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an extensive acquaintance with books."
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"Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma."
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"Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human."
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"Fight against illiteracy."
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"Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?"
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"Why is it these days that so many people hate reading? Some people won't even touch a newspaper or magazine. It isn't television that kills reading, or cinema or radio, or even those accursed little things known as video games. People used to read all the time, but when the century shifted subtly, somewhere along the way, people forgot how to imagine. When did it happen? At what point? Who or what is to blame? Maybe it's just because the world has become so cold and scientific and shallow in recent years."
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"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."
Justice
"If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul."
Joy
"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."
Legacy
"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
Reality
"Humility cannot be taught by propaganda, though slavery can. Shouting for humility is a form of arrogance. One of my most abiding recollections is of a priest at a religious occasion once roaring, in the most threatening way imaginable: 'O our Lord God, we most humbly pray!'Real humility is not always the same as apparent humility. Remember that fighting against self-conceit is still fighting: and that it will tend to suppress it temporarily. It does not cure anything.Remember, too, that humility itself does not bring an automatic reward: it is a means to an end. It enables a person to operate in a certain manner."
Morality
"Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it."
Spiritual
"A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication."
Friendship
"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
Communication
"The heart of the wise person is a mirror to the world."
Wisdom
"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."
Perspective
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