The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.
You cannot possibly expect even the most illiterate person on Earth to believe that you really want a democracy in Iraq while you are paying Mubarak $3 billion a year to pretend he doesn't hate Israel. And you're providing the military and diplomatic umbrella that protects the fascist government, if you will, of the al Sauds.
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