Books can teach us a lot, if we are willing to learn. I read a lot, and sometimes capture thoughts I find. Here's an excerpt from “Here, There, Everywhere” by William Least Heat-Moon:
“After all, a human life proceeds kaleidoscopically. We accumulate memories often deliberately and always ineluctably, and over time see them form the pieces of who we are. Who remembers his life in wholeness or in its entirety? Shaped by fragments, we are bipedal kaleidoscopes of endlessly shifting arrangements more random than we may wish to admit.”
From "History Matters" by David McCullough - "To be indifferent to history isn't just to be ignorant, it's often to be rude, to show a form of ingratitude." "We are raising generations of young Americans who, by and large, are historically illiterate. And that has to change. There is no better way to understand who we are and why we are the way we are and where we may be heading than by reading history from the hands of good writers. I can't imagine a world without books." (Yet we find some segments of government that want to ban books. GB)
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