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not Jesus though
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Gandhi, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jr, FDR and Winston Churchill were extraordinary men who revolutionized the world, Nelson Mandela is a modern-day saint of sorts, and Johannes Gutenberg gave us the world's greatest invention, but in my opinion the greatest man to ever live was a woman.
Helen Keller became blind and death at two years of age. She had plenty of reason for fury and frustration, and rather than sucking it inward and falling into despair, she, with the help of her phenomenal teacher Anne Sullivan, converted it into energy and passion. Those who know the story of the Miracle Worker only have a small glimpse of how exceedingly great Helen Keller truly was. At a time when most teenage girls from the South had far more simple aspirations of following in their mother's footsteps and working in the home, Helen Keller set her mind to attending Harvard. She studied Greek, Latin, History and Geometry, and though Harvard wouldn't take her, their sister school, the all-female Radcliffe College did. At 23 she published the book "The Story of My Life," which is deeply inspiring. She was a tireless activist for racial and sexual equality, and showed tremendous courage, perseverance, and boldness. And she was a funny, complex person who fully embraced life and looked it "straight in the eye."
Other people accomplished more than she did. She never won a Nobel Peace Prize, invented anything revolutionary, saved a life, or won a battle, but she was an optimistic example of the deepest meaning of being alive as a human being.
~ Pax / Peace : )
Gandhi, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jr, FDR and Winston Churchill were extraordinary men who revolutionized the world, Nelson Mandela is a modern-day saint of sorts, and Johannes Gutenberg gave us the world's greatest invention, but in my opinion the greatest man to ever live was a woman.
Helen Keller became blind and death at two years of age. She had plenty of reason for fury and frustration, and rather than sucking it inward and falling into despair, she, with the help of her phenomenal teacher Anne Sullivan, converted it into energy and passion. Those who know the story of the Miracle Worker only have a small glimpse of how exceedingly great Helen Keller truly was. At a time when most teenage girls from the South had far more simple aspirations of following in their mother's footsteps and working in the home, Helen Keller set her mind to attending Harvard. She studied Greek, Latin, History and Geometry, and though Harvard wouldn't take her, their sister school, the all-female Radcliffe College did. At 23 she published the book "The Story of My Life," which is deeply inspiring. She was a tireless activist for racial and sexual equality, and showed tremendous courage, perseverance, and boldness. And she was a funny, complex person who fully embraced life and looked it "straight in the eye."
Other people accomplished more than she did. She never won a Nobel Peace Prize, invented anything revolutionary, saved a life, or won a battle, but she was an optimistic example of the deepest meaning of being alive as a human being.
~ Pax / Peace : )
Where can I order these books online?
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Middlemarch by George Eliot
These are the top ten books of all time I guess.
Do you know where I can buy all of these books for half price or less on an online store?
Answer
You can read or download all of them online for free:
Anna Kareninahttp://tolstoy.thefreelibrary.com/Anna-Karenina
Madame Bovary: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413
War and Peace: http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/war_and_peace/
Lolita: http://freebooksread.blogspot.com/2011/04/lolita-online-free.html
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Mark_Twain/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn/
Hamlet: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html
(Also please see my website on Hamlet, "Be All My Sins Remembered," at www.thyorisons.com.)
The Great Gatsby: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/index.html
In Search of Lost Time (aka Remembrance of Things Past) : http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/index.html
The Stories of Anton Chekhov: http://www.free-ebooks.net/author/anton-chekhov
Middlemarch: http://eliot.thefreelibrary.com/Middlemarch
You also might want to read The Tale of Genji
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Wikipedia on The_Tale_of_Genji
The Tale of Genji . . . . is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century, around the peak of the Heian period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel still to be considered a classic.
*****
You are what you read. Stand up for yourself and for all the great authors who formed you.
My mind has been molded by the great authors I have chosen to teach me.
Whenever I start to feel intimidated by the barrage of insults
that I encounter when I express myself in Internet forums (whether on politics or literature),
I remind myself of who I am.
I am Shakespeare. I am Adam Smith. I am Murray Rothbard. I am Ayn Rand.
I am Heinlein. I am Thoreau. I am Thomas Jefferson. I am Jesus of Nazareth.
I will stand up proudly for my opinions and be cowed by no one.
- From www.thyorisons.com/Notebooks.html - The Notebooks of Ray Eston Smith Jr
You can read or download all of them online for free:
Anna Kareninahttp://tolstoy.thefreelibrary.com/Anna-Karenina
Madame Bovary: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413
War and Peace: http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/war_and_peace/
Lolita: http://freebooksread.blogspot.com/2011/04/lolita-online-free.html
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Mark_Twain/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn/
Hamlet: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html
(Also please see my website on Hamlet, "Be All My Sins Remembered," at www.thyorisons.com.)
The Great Gatsby: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/index.html
In Search of Lost Time (aka Remembrance of Things Past) : http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/index.html
The Stories of Anton Chekhov: http://www.free-ebooks.net/author/anton-chekhov
Middlemarch: http://eliot.thefreelibrary.com/Middlemarch
You also might want to read The Tale of Genji
Yahoo only allows a maximum of 10 links in an Answer, so add "http://" to the front of
2020ok.com/books/15/the-tale-of-genji-12515.htm
Wikipedia on The_Tale_of_Genji
The Tale of Genji . . . . is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century, around the peak of the Heian period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel still to be considered a classic.
*****
You are what you read. Stand up for yourself and for all the great authors who formed you.
My mind has been molded by the great authors I have chosen to teach me.
Whenever I start to feel intimidated by the barrage of insults
that I encounter when I express myself in Internet forums (whether on politics or literature),
I remind myself of who I am.
I am Shakespeare. I am Adam Smith. I am Murray Rothbard. I am Ayn Rand.
I am Heinlein. I am Thoreau. I am Thomas Jefferson. I am Jesus of Nazareth.
I will stand up proudly for my opinions and be cowed by no one.
- From www.thyorisons.com/Notebooks.html - The Notebooks of Ray Eston Smith Jr
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