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Above all, remember that your task is not so much to achieve an overall understanding of the particular book before you as to find out how it can be useful to you in a connection that may be very far from the author’s own purpose in writing it.

Technical knowledge is also a kind of language. While some historians may need to read German or Korean, others may need to know how to read a legal brief, a garden journal, a medical chart, a military service record, a diplomatic cable, or a patent application—and perhaps how to read some of these documents in German or Korean.

You continue this process until you eventually hit upon a totally unoccupied niche, the narrower the better.

you should jump at any chance for your books to be given away to an event’s worth of ideal readers.

Mothers and fathers have to be far more aggressive in governing their kids’ access to media and technology.

encouraged people to form groups of four to eight people to share weekly the degree to which God was real in their hearts, their besetting sins, ways God was dealing with them through the Word, and how their prayer lives were faring.

A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem with an intricate and fixed rhyme scheme. In English, moreover, sonnets are written in a prevailing meter consisting of ten syllables per line (called pentameter), arranged into five poetic feet, each of which consists of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable (called an iamb).