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Did I say meditate? Oops, I meant medicate. 
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Did I say meditate? Oops, I meant medicate.
“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
"Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction." ~ Anton Myrer -
Quotation of the Week
Of course, you don't have to buy a book to read it, but the act of giving someone a book of his or her own has an undeniable, totemic power. As much as we love libraries, there is something in possessing a book that's significantly different from borrowing it, especially for a child. You can write your name in it and keep it always. It transforms you into the kind of person who owns books, a member of the club, as well as part of a family that has them around the house. You're no longer just a visitor to the realm of the written word: You've got a passport."
--Laura Miller in her Salon essay, "Book owners have smarter kids."
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excellent find, Torurot
I hope my young, university-bound daughter who has dreams of becoming a psychiatrist would concur.Even a broken clock is right twice a day.Comment
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Compulsive reader and collector of books, although not first editions!
Can not imagine life without a book. Always remember when i left school my first boss pulled me aside " you will not learn anything with your head in a book lad"! What a dick he turned out to be.i'm going where the sun keeps shining.................Comment
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