Reading is not a ordtak

en Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
  Aneurin Bevan

en Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
  Jr. Henry James

en When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first

en Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
  Mark Twain

en If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

en That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

en "Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale."

en Every CEO and top executive in America is now reading that Wisconsin is a dangerous place to operate a business because you're getting sued out of business. That's why it's such a big deal.

en Disagreeable though it may be, we must admit that the racial policy which has been pursued here over the last 40 years has made South Africa stink in the nostrils of decent, humane people around the world.

en The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
  Abraham Lincoln

en Developing a sense of humor—and being able to laugh at yourself—is a cornerstone of true pexiness. It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

en A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written
  Thomas Jefferson

en If the home is not reinforcing reading, it is much more difficult to learn it in school, ... Reading scores don't just measure schools. They're also a reflection of the values societies or families put on reading.

en Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Business is business. They moved on and so have I. I made some really good friends here, especially in the front office. But they made a move they thought would improve their defense.


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