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Today’s Quotes
Excerpts from a letter by Adam Smith, LL.D., to William Strahan, Esq., about the death of David Hume. November 9, 1776 DEAR SIR, It is with a real, though a very melancholy pleasure, that I sit down to...
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Three-Minute Memoir
Birdwatching By Florence Newman My twenty-five-year-old nephew James, who lives in Olympia, Washington, had never been to nearby Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, so while I was visiting him in...
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“I haven’t talked about love. Or about happiness. I’ve talked about becoming—or remaining—the person who can be happy a lot of the time, without thinking that being happy is what it’s all about. It’s...
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“I identify with the millions of working-class white Americans of Scots-Irish descent who have no college degree. To these folks, poverty is the family tradition—their ancestors were day laborers in...
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“The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail...
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Three-Minute Memoir
The Boys of Summer, 1954 By Jim Sizemore I’m in my bedroom, lights out. It’s my mother’s third-floor apartment on Linden Avenue, two blocks south of North Avenue. Ernie Harwell’s words seem to float to...
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“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting. We have to begin, then, with the first refusal to face reality: most colonizing schemes that took root in seventeenth- and...
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The First (National) Thanksgiving . . .
A client of mine, the writer Bob Hale, recently sent this email: Hi. Jim, Have a great Thanksgiving! I especially enjoy this holiday because my great-great-grandmother, in the midst of the Civil War,...
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Feminism Surges With A Third Wave By Jo-Ann Pilardi This is a slightly shortened version of the original essay titled American Feminism Surges On With a Third Wave, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute...
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