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document.write("What is important - what lasts - in another language is not what is said but what is written. ");
document.write("For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry ");
document.write("and prose, not its talk shows.![](\"images\/rtSide\/closeQuote.gif\")
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document.write("Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an ");
document.write("intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is ");
document.write("exclusively the writer\'s own, individual, unique.");
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document.write("Literature as a transmission of power. Text books and treaties, dictionaries and encyclopedias, manuals and books of instruction —\; they");
document.write("are communications; but literature is a power line, and the motor, mark you, is the reader.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Charles P. Curtis 1957"); break; case 3: document.write("
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document.write("Reading is a joy, but not an unalloyed joy. Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Harry Golden, 1964"); break; case 4: document.write("
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document.write("Literature: The art of saying a thing by saying something else good.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Elbert Hubbard, 1923"); break; case 5: document.write("
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document.write("When power leads a man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his ");
document.write("limitations. When power narrows the areas of man\'s concerns, poetry ");
document.write("reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power ");
document.write("corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.");
document.write(""); document.write("— John F. Kennedy, 1963"); break; case 6: document.write("
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document.write("Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Harper Lee, 1960"); break; case 7: document.write("
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document.write("We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Marcel Proust"); break; case 8: document.write("
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document.write("A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an ");
document.write("explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face... It is one of the few havens remaining where a ");
document.write("man\'s mind can get both provocation and privacy.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Edward P. Morgan, 1963"); break; case 9: document.write("
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document.write("My favorite part was... Learning how to express my feelings through writing poems.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Dale Womens' Correctional Facility Poetry course participant age 19"); break; case 10: document.write("
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document.write("Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree possible.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Ezra Pound, 1931"); break; case 11: document.write("
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document.write("Books, I say, are truly alchemical agents; for they, more than other of man\'s creations, ");
document.write("have the power of transforming something common (meaning you and me as we are most of the time ");
document.write("into something precious (meaning you and me as God meant us to be.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Lawrence Clark Powell, 1954"); break; case 12: document.write("
Literature is the memory of humanity.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978"); break; case 13: document.write("
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931"); break; case 14: document.write("
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document.write("Temples fall, statues decay, mausoleums perish, eloquent phrases declaimed are forgotten, but good books are immortal.");
document.write(""); document.write("— William Vernon, 1900"); break; case 15: document.write("
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document.write("I was always keenly aware that literature demands not only all one can give, but also all one can get other people to give it.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Edmund Wilson, 1977"); break; case 16: document.write("
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document.write("My favorite part of the program was... reading the children's books and making one of my own. I would like to have more programs like this.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Parent comment from the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 17: document.write("
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document.write("To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, ");
document.write("both verbal and numerical, and communication skills."); document.write("— Alan Greenspan"); break; case 18: document.write("
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document.write("Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of ");
document.write("my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassed mentor awkwardness.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Helen Keller 1902"); break; case 19: document.write("
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document.write("My favorite part was... Discovering new ambitions and ideas.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Dale Womens' Correctional Facility Poetry course participant age 27"); break; case 20: document.write("
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document.write("My favorite part was... When I found out I could write poems, and when in the class I learned more how to read poems by other authors.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Dale Womens' Correctional Facility Poetry course participant age 59"); break; case 21: document.write("
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document.write("I found it to be a great inspiration to searching the soul.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Dale Womens' Correctional Facility Poetry course participant age 46"); break; case 22: document.write("
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document.write("I never thought before this program that I could write poetry. It has been a great experience for me.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Dale Womens' Correctional Facility Poetry course participant age 70"); break; case 23: document.write("
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document.write("My favorite part was... I felt very comfortable and enjoyed being here.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Dale Womens' Correctional Facility Poetry course participant age 47"); break; case 24: document.write("
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document.write("My favorite part was... Sharing art with others, learning about, and enjoying other people and their art.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Dale Womens' Correctional Facility Poetry course participant age 25"); break; case 25: document.write("
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document.write("Too many family's think reading is suppose to be a sleeping pill for their children. This program would be an awakening.");
document.write(""); document.write("— From a Participant of the Never to Early literacy program for childcare providers"); break; case 26: document.write("
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document.write("The leader connects with participants 'where they are'. Her upbeat style is warm and non-judgmental. Excellent series!! The books are wonderful. The benefits are extraordinary. Keep providing book discussion series for parents of young children. It's where readership begins!");
document.write(""); document.write("— Host Provider of the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 27: document.write("
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document.write("One parent reported that she felt she had learned a lot and even voiced this to the group. This is a very new adult reader.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Host Provider of the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 28: document.write("
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document.write("Participants gained more books added to their library; a chance to share their reading history; a different way of talking to their children about the pictures in the books.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Host Provider of the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 29: document.write("
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document.write("The participants learned different ways to share books with their children. They also learned songs and fingerplays to bring home to share. They were given books to bring home, a total of nine, and this made them very excited about the program. It was definitely worth doing and our students loved the program.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Host Provider of the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 30: document.write("
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document.write("It was surprising and nice to see one dad, who is quiet and somewhat reserved, begin to participate in discussions and truly add nice depth. All the parents loved the opportunity to talk with other adults in meaningful ways.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Host Provider of the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 31: document.write("
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document.write("We talked about the local public library, and one parent reported that she was now going to sign up.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Host Provider of the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 32: document.write("
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document.write("The participants enjoyed the books and related discussions. The parents had the adult time first and then joined their children. The group enthusiasm was measurable, and families made nice connections around the books and with each other. The participants gained more awareness and reinforcement about the importance and enjoyment of reading to their children!");
document.write(""); document.write("— Host Provider of the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 33: document.write("
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document.write("This is great, a wonderful program. It is a wonderful way to get reading and books into families who can't afford much!");
document.write(""); document.write("— Host Provider of the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 34: document.write("
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document.write("My favorite part of the program was... getting the books, bring them home and reading them to my youngest son. The leader was a great person to have here and very entertaining.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Parent comment from the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 35: document.write("
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document.write("My favorite part of the program was... being able to learn new things, in addition I love working in the adult diploma program so I can graduate.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Parent comment from the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; case 36: document.write("
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document.write("My favorite part of the program was... reading the children's books and making one of my own. I would like to have more programs like this.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Parent comment from the 2005 "Read With Me" program of the Vermont Humanities Council"); break; default: document.write("
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document.write("When you sell a man a book you don\'t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue —\; you sell him a whole new life.");
document.write(""); document.write("— Christoper Morley, 1917"); break; }