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Dehaene even allows himself a few moments of (justifiable) annoyance at the way that childhood reading experts continue their debates about the best strategies for teaching reading to children in complete ignorance of a large and growing body of work on how the human brain processes written language.

Dating of Hindu history is always approximate and speculative, and often a range, as orally transmitted scriptures precede the written works by several centuries, and parts of the written work were composed by various scribes over several generations, in different geographies.

I hold Petrarch at leastly partly responsible for the disconcerting gap between Italian's written and spoken vocabularies. The

To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention being to implant it in the cultures of the target languages – but such attempts, in the end, did not produce the intended results.

No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded. —FROM A STUDY OF ASSASSINATION, A CIA TRAINING MANUAL, 1954

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

Our destiny is written for us.

This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

Hebrew ... belongs to the Canaanite group of languages ... this means that when the Israelite tribes settled in Canaan they adopted the language of that country, at least for their written documents. Ancient traditions ... allude to Aramean ancestors (see Dt 26:5).

I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.

I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.

Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from his lifetime to this year of his bicentennial. Some advice: Don't try that unless you have at least five years available.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

when my Country takes her place among the nations of the Earth , then and not 'till then shall my epitaph be written Robert Emmet

Words affect the mind in a pronounced way. Whether they are spoken or written, they are powerful influences.

Since I've been taking care of her, the last six months in fact, she was everything for me, and I've completely forgotten that I'd written. I was no longer anything but desperately hers.

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought

Prayer is communication with the Divine. It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do. However it is expressed, it is never in vain.

We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.