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Ron is Currently Reading

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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

by Louise Erdrich

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The Sack of Rome: Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi

by Alexander Stille

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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

“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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“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: politics

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“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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“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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