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  2. The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit and Wisdom of Michael ...

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    The 32-page publication compiles quotes attributed to Bloomberg, while he was leading Bloomberg L.P., and prepared by the company's chief marketing officer, Elisabeth DeMarse. [3] The book, which calls itself an "unauthorized collection of unauthorized sayings", was a gift to Bloomberg on his 48th birthday and contains a total of 121 quotes.

  3. Reading Is Fundamental - Wikipedia

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    Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. (RIF) is the oldest and largest non-profit children's literacy organization in the United States.RIF provides books (print and digital) and reading resources to children nationwide with supporting literacy resources for educators, families, and community volunteers.

  4. Goodreads - Wikipedia

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    Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon [1] that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. . Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading li

  5. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Wikipedia

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    She recounts some of the details of choosing and processing quotations in her book on the life of Charles Williams (one of the committee). [3] Later editions of the Dictionary were published in 1953 and thereafter, the 6th edition appearing in 2004 ( ISBN 0-19-860720-2 ), the 7th in 2009 ( ISBN 0-19-923717-4 ), and the 8th in 2014 ( ISBN 0-19 ...

  6. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Wikipedia

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    The book began with quotations originally in English, arranged them chronologically by author; Geoffrey Chaucer was the first entry and Mary Frances Butts the last. The quotes were chiefly from literary sources. A "miscellaneous" section followed, including quotations in English from politicians and scientists, such as "fifty-four forty or fight!".

  7. Reading Like a Writer - Wikipedia

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    Prose discusses the question of whether writing can be taught. She answers the question by suggesting that although writing workshops can be helpful, the best way to learn to write is to read. Closely reading books, Prose studied word choice and sentence construction. Close reading helped her solve difficult obstacles in her own writing.

  8. Quotation - Wikipedia

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    A quotation or quote is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. [1] In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying.

  9. The three Rs - Wikipedia

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    The three Rs [1] are three basic skills taught in schools: reading, writing and arithmetic", Reading, wRiting, and ARithmetic [2] or Reckoning. The phrase appears to have been coined at the beginning of the 19th century.