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• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  Edith Hamilton

  Real, Writing, People

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

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• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  Karl Rove

  Race, Style, Elements

  "Karl Rove Calls Out Stupid Journalists Who Believed the Worst About Him". www.newsbusters.org. March 8, 2010.

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• The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

  John Podhoretz

  Suicide, Children, Media

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• In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and old, will feel encouraged and enlightened by this excellent DVD which offers a wonderful range of specific advice and suggestive comments from a group of experienced and thoughtful writers.

  Margot Livesey

  Thoughtful, Dvds, Advice

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• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  Carl Sandburg

  Taken, Class, Literature

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• Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated the Scopes trial within a much broader context than any scholar before him. Trying Biology also demonstrates how ideologues have used differing interpretations of the Scopes trial to advance their agendas. By situating the trial within this much broader framework, the author has significantly enlarged our understanding of the conversations between religion and science in twentieth-century America.

  Randall Balmer

  America, Understanding, Marketing

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• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

  Depressing, Book, Years

  "Class Action". www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2005.

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• I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Expectations, Definitions

  "Rachel Zoe: Size 0 to 8" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2008.

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• Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Art, Writing, Games

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• Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Book, Laughing

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• Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.

  Kiersten White

  Running, Fun, Calm

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• A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Rude, Sitting, Rats

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.79, Penguin

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• For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.

  Libba Bray

  Uncles, Ties, Deep Wounds

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• I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

  John Green

  Weekend, Past, Ideas

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.49, Penguin

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• Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

  James W. Loewen

  Teacher, Needs, Subjects

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

  James W. Loewen

  Pages, No Excuses, Excuse

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, August 12, 2013.

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• I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited about painting, I never really got further than what would have been in a modern art history textbook.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Growing Up, Two

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Littles, Firsts, Hassan

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.54, A&C Black

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• Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what kind of family they are. What word is it that can define them? What would they call his family in the textbooks? Broken? He comes from a broken home. The Mackees can't be put back together again. There are too many pieces of them missing.

  Melina Marchetta

  Home, Together Again, Voice

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• At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.

  Gail Collins

  Daughter, Book, School

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.

  Robert O. Paxton

  War, People, Parent

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples, Italy. I read the Western economic textbooks and also the more general work of people like Hayek. By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but I was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Spring, Years, People

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

  Martha Stewart

  Book, Writing, Firsts

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• I taught myself to use a camera - it's not very difficult to use a camera, but I never bothered looking at any textbooks on how to make a picture. I had a much more casual relation to it. For me at the time it was much more about the process rather than the results.

  Gillian Wearing

  Cameras, Use, Taught

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