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Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World

by A.N. Wilson

bookshelves: biography, enlightenment, currently-reading

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Unsheltered

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture

by Jon Savage

bookshelves: currently-reading, history, youth, culture

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Ron’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Bluestockings The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

Bluestockings The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education by Jane Robinson

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A Cambridge professor who is in the habit of addressing his students most pointedly as ‘Gentlemen!’ proceeded to his lecture room on Ash Wednesday, to find only the ladies present. With head erect and eyes riveted on the opposite wall, he ...more

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Ron’s Quotes

“‎"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow”
― Edward R. Murrow, In Search Of Light: The Broadcasts Of Edward R. Morrow, 1938-1961

tags: politics-of-the-united-states

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding

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