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Ever need a fact or quotation on "illiterates"? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this word. It represents a compilation of "single sentences" and/or "short paragraphs" from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term "illiterates," including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. This is not an encyclopedic book, but rather a collage of statements made using the word "illiterates," or related words (e.g. inflections, synonyms or antonyms). This title is one of a series of books that considers all major vocabulary words. The entries in each book cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This data dump results in many unexpected examples for "illiterates," since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a computer-generated linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under fair use conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Familiar Quotations

Illiterates

Illiterate? Write For Help.–Anonymous

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.–Aleister Crowley

There is no such thing as a functional illiterate.–Kelvin Throop III

The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.–Ronald Knox

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.–Walter Lippmann

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.–Ezra Pound

The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.–Alvin Toffler

Illiterates – "Ignorance"

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.–Christopher Andrea

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.–Maya Angelou

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.–Anonymous

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Illiterates 1
• Illiterates – "Ignorance" 1
• Illiterates – "Ignorant" 2
• Illiterates – "Rude" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Illiterates 3
• Illiterates – "Ignorant" 9
• Illiterates – "Life" 11
• Illiterates – "Man" 11
• Illiterates – "Old" 13
• Illiterates – "Persons" 13
• Illiterates – "Poor" 14
• Illiterates – "Reader" 14
• Nonfiction Usage 16
• Qur'anic Usage 16
• Journalism Usage 16
• Legal Usage 16
• Bibliographic Usage 16
• Encyclopedic Usage 22
• Lexicographic Usage 25
• Index 35