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When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance is my favorite singer as a singer - so I'm really widely spread open with music choices.
Autistic people's disabilities are widely known, but one of their best-established strengths is their attention to detail.
Baahubali... ' has been accepted widely amongst Hindi cinema-goers. So this shows that language is becoming less important.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.
Men in makeup is becoming more widely accepted. But it's going to take so much more open-mindedness to have it be a common thing.
It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
My role in 'Yamla Pagla Deewana' was widely appreciated, and the best part was that my character connected me with my Punjabi fans.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
Deficits are anathema to most Republicans. And Democrats widely believe that government spending should fall as the economy recovers.
Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted.
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
Passover is the most widely observed of all the Jewish holidays, and the Passover Seder... is the most practiced of all the Jewish rituals.
It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.
If a company want to cast its net widely, they will absolutely find qualified women. I don't really think there are any real barriers to that.
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.
I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.
I won't say there aren't 'smart' roles for women, but the variety is limited. I feel the real representation is not widely available in Bollywood.
What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.
I think there's a lot of gay women in sports, and it's widely known in the team; they can live a pretty open lifestyle without being open in the media.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.
Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.
Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years.
So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things.
If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.
Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.
Coffee, one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, contains a plethora of naturally-occurring compounds, including several classes of antioxidants.
The rise of populism is in part a response to stagnating incomes and job loss, owing mostly to new technologies but widely attributed to imports and immigrants.
This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.
In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.
The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely.
In female sports, if you're gay, most likely your team knows it pretty quickly. It's very open and widely supported. For males, it's not that way at all. It's sad.
Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.