Ron Peters

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Ron is Currently Reading

Ron Peters is currently reading

Arsène Lupin in the Teeth of the Tiger (Arsène Lupin, #10)

by Maurice Leblanc

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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 truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

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“‎"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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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

tags: bullying, dissent, moral-courage, protest

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