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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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Book cover for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to ... the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to ... the State of Rome during the Middle Ages by Edward Gibbon

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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the ...more

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Ron’s Quotes

“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.”
― Mark Hanna

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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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“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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“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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“‎"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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