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Ron is Currently Reading

Ron Peters is currently reading

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 William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson Jr.

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There is no worse enemy of God and Man than zeal armed with power and guided by a feeble intellect . . . The great lesson of history,” he concluded somberly, “is to keep power of life and death away from that kind of mind, the mind that ...more

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Ron’s Quotes

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
― Thomas a Kempis

tags: books, literature, peace, reading, rest, words

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