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“Love is illiterate. Whether we write it big or small, we cannot read it. We might only guess. ( "I seek you" )”
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“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
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“The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the creation of the world out of nothing in six days by a personal God, vicarious atonement, absolution from sin by the shedding of innocent blood. This is the Christianity offered to the poor and illiterate of India...
Christianity has percolated through the layers of dogmatism and bigotry, of intolerance and superstition, of damnation and hell fire. It takes on itself the quality of these layers and imparts them to those that are received within its folds.”
― The Monist
Christianity has percolated through the layers of dogmatism and bigotry, of intolerance and superstition, of damnation and hell fire. It takes on itself the quality of these layers and imparts them to those that are received within its folds.”
― The Monist
“Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half of winter. A Quinn is like a queen, but draggier, and cheaper to buy and use for personal gain, unless you’re suspicious that you’re poor and illiterate like Jarod Kintz, in which case Quinns could be the spirits of your dead relatives, come to haunt you until you gather a massive fortune through selling books on the internet, to send some back in time through a portal you bought from the NSA, so they would have lived better lives without having to move a finger for their fortune. Oh, yah, and since they aren’t - they’re blue, like smurfs, yet they turn purple whenever tickled on the belly, which is something they seem to rather dislike, since they start biting and scratching when it happens, for no good reason, I might add.”
― Nothing is here...
― Nothing is here...
“I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole.”
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“Kuna tofauti kati ya hekima na maarifa. Unaweza kuwa profesa ukawa mpumbavu, unaweza kuwa gumbaru ukawa na hekima.”
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“Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum of the parts, right? I see one hunk of metal and then another, and the puzzle opens. They turn in my mind and just make sense. Together they all mean something.”
― Both of Me
― Both of Me
“And if Francoise then, inspired like a poet with a flood of confused reflections upon bereavement, grief, and family memories, were to plead her inability to rebut my theories, saying: "I don't know how to espress (sic) myself" - I would triumph over her with an ironical and brutal common sense worthy of Dr. Percepied; and if she went on: "All the same she was a geological (sic) relation; there is always the respect due to your geology (sic)," I would shrug my shoulders and say: "It is really very good of me to discuss the matter with an illiterate old woman who cannot speak her own language," adopting, to deliver judgment on Francoise, the mean and narrow outlook of the pedant, whom those who are most contemptuous of him in the impartiality of their own minds are only too prone to copy when they are obliged to play a part upon the vulgar stage of life.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.”
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“The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and add to his knowledge, Nor will it suffice to justify learned men in the neglect and contempt of this part of natural history, that the men, from whom it must be learned, are illiterate mechanicks... is indeed childish, and too unworthy of a philosopher, to be worthy of an honest answer.”
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“The literate who does not read and the illiterate who cannot read are one and the same; both are ignorant.”
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Kwa mwanamke wa kuoa natafuta hasanati. Akiwa mbaya atakuwa mzuri. Akiwa maskini atakuwa tajiri. Akiwa gumbaru atakuwa msomi. Akiwa mshamba atakuwa mjanja. Akiwa mjinga atapata maarifa. Nitampenda zaidi kwa mazuri kuliko mabaya.”
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“It's hard to ignore ignorance, as we wear our brainy hat of hatred. Where the hammer hits the nail, indirectly.”
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“The unlettered does his utmost to distance a sign-post because most host almost a legion of inexplicable inscriptions. The illiterate is considerate of his deficiency and makes a deliberate effort commensurate with his status lest he is deemed obdurate.”
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Illiterate is not the one who can't read and write, illiterate is the one who has no desire to learn.”
― Servitude is Sanctitude
― Servitude is Sanctitude
“It is only the illiterate beggar who needs full support from you both in food and better quality of educational programmes.”
― Resistance To Intolerance
― Resistance To Intolerance
“Aurora can’t talk to you right now.â€�
“Why not?�
“Do you know what a period is?�
“A punctuation mark. I am Italian, not illiterate.�
“Not that kind of period. A girl’s kind of period.�
“Oh, a female’s menstrual cycle.�
“Yes. She’s in the throes of it right now.�
“She seemed in fine health earlier.�
“What are you, her OB?�
“Her what?�
“E³æ²¹³¦³Ù±ô²â.â€�
“See? He doesn’t have a clue.”
― Demons in Disguise
“Why not?�
“Do you know what a period is?�
“A punctuation mark. I am Italian, not illiterate.�
“Not that kind of period. A girl’s kind of period.�
“Oh, a female’s menstrual cycle.�
“Yes. She’s in the throes of it right now.�
“She seemed in fine health earlier.�
“What are you, her OB?�
“Her what?�
“E³æ²¹³¦³Ù±ô²â.â€�
“See? He doesn’t have a clue.”
― Demons in Disguise
“He glanced down at the map on the table, and his voice was void of anything- any emotion, any anger or amusement- as he said, 'What is that?'
I snatched up my map. 'I thought I should learn my surroundings.'
Drip, drip, drip.
I opened my mouth to point out his hand again, but he said, 'You can't write, can you.'
I didn't answer. I didn't know what to say. Ignorant, insignificant human.
'No wonder you become so adept at other things.'
I supposed he was so far gone in thinking about his encounter with the Bogge that he hadn't realised the compliment he'd given me. If it was a compliment.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
I snatched up my map. 'I thought I should learn my surroundings.'
Drip, drip, drip.
I opened my mouth to point out his hand again, but he said, 'You can't write, can you.'
I didn't answer. I didn't know what to say. Ignorant, insignificant human.
'No wonder you become so adept at other things.'
I supposed he was so far gone in thinking about his encounter with the Bogge that he hadn't realised the compliment he'd given me. If it was a compliment.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I hated the smell of these books- the decaying rot of the pages, the mocking whisper of the paper, the rough skin of the binding. I looked at the piece of paper, at all those words I didn't know.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I could help you write to them, if that's why you're in here.'
I jerked back in my seat, almost knocking over the chair, and whirled to find Tamlin right behind me, a stack of books in his arms. I pushed back against the heat rising in my cheeks and ears, the panic at the information he might be guessing I'd been trying to send. 'Help? You mean a faerie is passing up the opportunity to mock an ignorant human?'
He set the books down on the table, his jaw tight. I couldn't read the titles glinting on the leather spines. 'Why should I mock you for a shortcoming that isn't your fault? Let me help you. I owe you for the hand.'
Shortcoming. It was a shortcoming.
Yet it was one thing to bandage his hand, to talk to him as if he wasn't a predator build to kill and destroy, but to reveal how little I truly knew, to let him see that part of me that was still a child, unfinished and raw... His face was unreadable. Though there had been no pity in his voice. I straightened. 'I'm fine.'
'You think I've got nothing better to do with my time than come up with elaborate ways to humiliate you?”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
I jerked back in my seat, almost knocking over the chair, and whirled to find Tamlin right behind me, a stack of books in his arms. I pushed back against the heat rising in my cheeks and ears, the panic at the information he might be guessing I'd been trying to send. 'Help? You mean a faerie is passing up the opportunity to mock an ignorant human?'
He set the books down on the table, his jaw tight. I couldn't read the titles glinting on the leather spines. 'Why should I mock you for a shortcoming that isn't your fault? Let me help you. I owe you for the hand.'
Shortcoming. It was a shortcoming.
Yet it was one thing to bandage his hand, to talk to him as if he wasn't a predator build to kill and destroy, but to reveal how little I truly knew, to let him see that part of me that was still a child, unfinished and raw... His face was unreadable. Though there had been no pity in his voice. I straightened. 'I'm fine.'
'You think I've got nothing better to do with my time than come up with elaborate ways to humiliate you?”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“My throat closed up, and I read and read and read, but no words came. The air became thick and stank of metal- not magic but burning, unforgiving steel creeping toward me, inch by inch.
'Answer it!' Lucien shouted, his voice hitched. My eyes stung. The world was just a blur of letters, mocking me with their turns and shapes.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
'Answer it!' Lucien shouted, his voice hitched. My eyes stung. The world was just a blur of letters, mocking me with their turns and shapes.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Who would have thought that the self-righteous human girl couldn't read?'
'Keep your damned mouth shut about it.'
'Me? I wouldn't dream of telling anyone. Why waste that kind of knowledge on petty gossip?'
If I'd had the strength, I would have leaped on him and ripped him apart. 'You're a disgusting bastard.'
'I'll have to ask Tamlin if that kind of flattery won his heart.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
'Keep your damned mouth shut about it.'
'Me? I wouldn't dream of telling anyone. Why waste that kind of knowledge on petty gossip?'
If I'd had the strength, I would have leaped on him and ripped him apart. 'You're a disgusting bastard.'
'I'll have to ask Tamlin if that kind of flattery won his heart.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
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