Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'AmourRead
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Interpretation
Books influence us even after we've finished reading them.
This quote by Louis L'Amour emphasizes the lasting impact that meaningful literature can have on our lives. Once we engage deeply with a book, its themes, characters, and insights become a part of our personal narrative, shaping our thoughts and perspectives long after the final page is turned.
In practice
During a book club meeting where members discuss the profound effects of literature on their lives.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.
If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.
States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of these things is just so huge. Sometimes I think we don't fully internalize what it is to get the power of knowledge in everyone's hand.
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
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