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• You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'

  Christina Ricci

  Teenager, Stupid, Feminism

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated in violence and a culture of cruelty. Needless to say, all of these forces intensified the increasing militarization and corporatization of higher education, along with the privatizing of everyday life.

  Henry Giroux

  Everyday, Violence, Culture

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.

  David Shuster

  Sex, Boys, Intelligent

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Sleep, Years, Numbers

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

  Louis Menand

  Views, Medicine, Political

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• Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Ideas, Common Sense

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.38, Full Moon Publications

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• One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Mind, Population

  John Kenneth Galbraith, J. Ron Stanfield, Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield (2004). “Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith”, p.156, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.

  Gunter Grass

  Lying, Believe, Writing

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• Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

  V. R. Krishna Iyer

  Dog, Blow, Blood

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• Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

  Roseanne Barr

  Country, America, Adults

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. ... For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, "nobodies" who failed to leave their names.

  Philip Yancey

  Christmas, Kings, Angel

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Ignorance, Good Book

  "Days with Bernard Shaw". Book by Stephen Winsten, 1949.

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• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  Savitri Devi

  Real, Humble, Sight

  Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Alive, Able, Lists

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• White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.

  Chris Crass

  White, People, Taught

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• There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  People, Way, Firsts

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• Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mean, Soul, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.168

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• Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Facts, Details

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS

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• I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

  Alfie Allen

  Mean, Looks, Mail

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically illiterate. But I have a pretty serendipitous approach to it.

  Carey Mercer

  Mean, Listening, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

  Alison Bechdel

  Beauty

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• I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

  Chinua Achebe

  Country, Writing, Community

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.82, Anchor

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• We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.

  Zakaria Tamer

  Country, Believe, Organization

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