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Schackne Online Reading List The 47 Ronin 1970, Tuttle Publishing, ISBN 13:978-0-8048-3827-6 While Europe Slept 2006, Doubleday, ISBN 13:978-0-385-514729 Gweilo Martin Booth, 2005, Bantam Books, ISBN 9780553816723, 0553816721 Flags of Our Fathers 2000, Bantam, ISBN 13-978-0-553-58934-4 A Walk in the Woods 1998, Black Swan, ISBN 0-552-99702-1 Made in America 1998, Black Swan, ISBN 0-552-99805-2 Neither Here Nor There 1998, Black Swan, ISBN 9780552998062 A Short History of Nearly Everything 2004, Black Swan, ISBN 0-552-15174-2 Bruce Catton Trilogy: Terrible Swift Sword, 1963, Doubleday, ISBN-10 0385026145 Never Call Retreat, 1965, Phoenix, ISBN-10 184212916 Myself a Mandarin 1977, Heineman, ISBN 0195841999 Disgrace 2000, Vintage, ISBN 0099284820 State of Fear Collapse The Complete Sherlock Holmes 1995, Bantam Classics and Loveswept, ISBN 0553328255 An American Tragedy Originally published in 1925 by Horace Liveright, Inc., Available in many bookstores Sister Carrie Originally published in 1900 by Doubleday,Page & Co., Available in many bookstores The Souls of Black Folk Originally published in 1903 by Dodd, Mead & Company, Available in many bookstores Invisible Man socio-political commentary Ralph Ellison, The War of the World 2006, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-141-01382-4 The Diary of a Young Girl First Published in 1947, 1993, Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-29698-1 The End of History and the Last Man 1992, The Free Press, ISBN 0-380-72002-7 The Book of Honor 2000, Anchor Books, ISBN 0-385-49541-2 Seven Years In Tibet 1994, Flamingo Edition,(first published in 1953) ISBN 0-586-08707-9 Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001, Random House, ISBN 0-375-50291-2 The Kite Runner 2003, Riverhead Books, ISBN 1-59448-000-1 The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 1988, Vintage Books, ISBN 0-394-75366-6 Les Miserables 1997, Ballantine Edition, ISBN 0-449-30002-1 The Lecturer's Tale 2001, Picador, ISBN 0-312-20332-2 Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control 2000, St. Augustine's Press, ISBN 1-890318-37-X Mister Pip 2006, Bantam Dell, ISBN 978-0-440-29685-0 In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines 1990, Ballantine Books, ISBN 10 0345328167 The Few 2006, Da Capo Press, ISBN 13: 978-0-306-81572-0 She's Come Undone 1992, Pocket Books, ISBN 0-671-02100-1 To Kill a Mockingbird 2006, Harper Perennial Modern Classics (orig published in 1960), ISBN 10 0061120081 Freakonomics 2006, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-141-02580-3 Arrowsmith Originally published in 1925 Harcourt, Brace & World, Available in many bookstores The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2000, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-513583-0 The Complete Short Stories of Somerset Maugham Originally published by Doubleday in 1953, Available in many bookstores Of Human Bondage (Originally published in 1915) 1991 Bantam Classic Books, ISBN 0-553-21392-X Frank McCourt Trilogy: 'Tis, 1999, Scribner, ISBN-10: 0684865742 Teacher Man, 2005, Scribner, ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-4377-3 Centennial 1974, Fawcett Publications The Nature of Happiness 2006, Little Books, ISBN 1-904435-572 A Wild Sheep Chase 2000, Harvill Press, ISBN 1-86046-7180 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 2006, Vintage International, ISBN 978-0-307-38632-8 Norris (Collected Writings) 1986, The Library of America, ISBN 0-940450-40-2 Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President 1997, Random House, ISBN 0-679-44766-0 Liberal Racists 1997, Viking, ISBN 0-670-87391-8 Profscam 1988, Regnery-Gateway, ISBN 0-89526-559-1 The Marsh Arabs 2007, Penguin Classics, ISBN 978-0-141-44208-2 The March of Folly 1985, Ballantine, ISBN-10 0345308239 The Once and Future King Originally published by Putnam in 1939, Available in many bookstores The Map That Changed the World 2001, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-019361-1 I am Charlotte Simmons 2005, Vintage, ISBN 9780099483793 |
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...quotation resources "Politics and education are the only areas of endeavor where you can almost always be wrong and still get a promotion."--Hymen Abramowitz "Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."--Edmund Burke "Life's about knowing the world's your enemy and having a good time anyway"--Patrick Carlin "The first step on the path to enlightenment is the admission of one's ignorance"--Benjamin Disraeli "In deceitful times, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act"--Fyodor Dostoyevski "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow"--Frederick Douglass "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius" --Arthur Conan Doyle "The rich were rich and the poor poor, but all were in the grip of imperial forces whose ruthless purpose or lack of them made all men ridiculous, pathetic or magnificent, as you choose" --Theodore Dreiser "How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! And all this life and love and strife and failure,-- is it the twilight of nightfall, or the flush of some faint-dawning day?"--W.E.B. DuBois "It is the last feather that breaks the camel's back, yet the last feather would do no harm but for the weight that precedes it. The first feather contributes as much as the last to the catastrophe."--Jubal Early "Human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity." --Gustave Flaubert "Of all the storms that beat down love, a request for money provides the coldest douche, and strikes most deeply to the roots." --Gustave Flaubert "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."--Benjamin Franklin "In ordinary life kindness counts more than a belief in human rights." --Jonathan Glover "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses for those who have brutal souls."--Herakleitos "I remember the damp air that smelled of the forest, and the tinkling of mountain streams dropping into shining pools. It was the world getting on with its business"--Lloyd Jones (from Mister Pip) "...you can not pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames...." --Lloyd Jones (from Mister Pip) "Bitterly cried the sky over the flowers let's not live without the red rose wine for the flowers on the grave of others will grow up one day on your own shrine" --Omar Khayyam "Those who were wise in the ways of the world Shining in gatherings like a candle of delight A single sparkle they did not unfold Perish as they did in their own plight" --Omar Khayyam "In a society where technology prevails, I still plod along with books". --Harper Lee "Success was merely the paper helmet of a clown more nimble than his fellows, scrambling for a peanut in the dust of an ignoble circus"--Sinclair Lewis "The body...is like a house: it doesn't go anywhere; but the spirit is like an automobile: always on the move, always...." --Sinclair Lewis "Always in America, there remains from pioneer days a cheerful pariahdom of shabby young men who prowl causelessly from state to state, from gang to gang, in the power of the Wanderlust. ....They are not permanently tramps. They have homes to which they return, to work quietly in the factory or in the section-gang for a year-- for a week--and as quietly to disappear again. They crowd the smoking cars at night; they sit silent on benches in filthy stations; They know all the land, yet of it they know nothing, because in a hundred cities they see only the employment agencies, the all-night lunches, the blind pigs, the scabrous lodging-houses...."--Sinclair Lewis "It has seemed to me that the final test of any civilization is, what type of husbands and wives and fathers and mothers it turns out. Beside the austere simplicity of such a question, every other achievement of civilization--art, philosophy, literature, and material living-- pales into insignificance." --Lin Yutang "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." --Mao Tse-Tung "For blacks before the mid-1960s, decrying racism stemmed from sincere grievance. But for far too many blacks today, it has drifted into a recreational crutch, assuaging the insecurity at the heart of the human soul." --John McWhorter "The childhood shows the man as the morning shows the day"--John Milton "Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt"--Reinhold Niebuhr "Force is the ultimate arbiter and any diplomatic policy that does not rely on carrots and sticks will not really get you very far. Without a club in the closet, without a credible threat of force, policy becomes bluff, bluster" --Herbert Okun, UN Special Advisor "Men can only be happy when they do not assume the object of life is happiness."--George Orwell "Nine times out of ten a revolutionary is merely a climber with a bomb in his pocket."--George Orwell "There is no armor against fate."--George Orwell "How right the working classes are in their 'materialism!' How right they are to realise that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time."--George Orwell "My country is the world and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine "You've got to have a good cop on the beat if you want to have a peaceful neighborhood. What goes for a neighborhood goes for the world. The United States Marines have been patrolling the world's tough neighborhoods, protecting American lives and property, ever since there was a United States of America. We're the cops on the beat. We've learned, like good cops, that when the tough boys get lawless, there's more law in the business end of a riot-stick than in a Supreme Court decision. These days of 1946, it looks like time for America to get realistic instead of starry-eyed" --Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller "Subversion in modern society, is not a sudden cataclysmic explosion, but a gradual undermining, a persistent chipping away at foundations which beliefs rest.... In the modern usage of the term, "subversion," it is no exaggeration to state that in the field of social sciences many major projects which have been most prominently sponsored by foundations have been subversive."--Rep. Carroll B. Reece (1954) "The home is the crystal of society-- the very nucleus of national character; and, from that source, be it pure or tainted, issue the habits, principles, and maxims, which govern public as well as private life. The nation comes from the nursery; public opinion itself is for the most part the outgrowth of the home; and, the best philanthropy comes from the fireside." --Samuel Smiles "Imitate him if you can; he served human liberty"--Jonathan Swift (on his gravestone) "With all the unhappy things Going on in the world Our friendship goes on The world should behold Nobody may rule The hearts that desire Friendship and love That never expire"--Alireza Taghdarre "Gloom finds kindred spirits, but write about pleasure and readers feel mocked and excluded." --Paul Theroux "From my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree." --Clarence Thomas "Urgency put you on the road at four in the a.m.-- truckers who wanted to make a quick pass through the city, futures traders with an eye on the overseas markets, lovers who'd left somebody's bed in the middle of the night in order to stop home before morning. That universe of special needs went zipping by overhead." --Scott Turow "To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."--Simone Weil "It is through knowing the truth that the people discover their hidden will"--George Weller "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." --Elie Wiesel "He came from darkness. He came out of the heart of darkness, from the dark heart of the secret and undiscovered South. He came by night, just as he passed by night. He was night's child and partner, a token of the wonder and the mystery, the other side of man's dark soul, his nighttime partner, and his nighttime foal, a symbol of those things that pass by darkness and that still remain, of something still and waiting in the night that comes and passes and that will abide, a symbol of man's evil innocence, and the token of his mystery, a projection of his own unfathomed quality, a friend, a brother, and a mortal enemy, an unknown demon--our loving friend, our mortal enemy, two worlds together-- a tiger and a child."--Thomas Wolfe "Censorship and propaganda are the ultimate revolutionary acts. They can reduce the intelligentsia into blind, dependent children. Take a child raised in an open society and put her next to a scholar raised in a totalitarian society--the child transforms into a scholar while the scholar assumes the mind of a child, a truly revolutionary change." --Xie Diwen "I am a cloud in the sky, a reflection by chance, in the heart of your wave. Don't be too amazed, or too thrilled. In an instant, I'll be gone without a trace" --Xu Zhimo |