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Today in 1845 Henry David Thoreau moved to his retreat at Walden Pond. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover had not lived.”

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happy bday German-born American writer/illustrator Margret Rey, b.1906, best known for Curious George done with her husband. https://t.co/AKcCQjePHs

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On this day in 1949 George Orwell's novel, 1984, is first published. “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

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happy bday Irish poet Paul Muldoon, b.1951, won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. "The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world." "Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."

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Happy bday Swiss theologian Hans Küng, b.1928. "Rome bases the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God…

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happy bday English writer Beatrix Potter, b1866, Tale of Peter Rabbit. “All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.” https://t.co/0pQLPVu9bl

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On this day in 1892 Ida B. Wells, early civil rights leader, first published pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” https://t.co/NqW9d4dIlC

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happy bday and RIP William Shakespeare, b1564, d.1616 "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee,

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On this day in 1940 22-year-old Carson McCullers’ first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, is published. “All we can do is go around telling the truth.” “For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage…

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On this day in 1892 Ida B. Wells, early civil rights leader, first published pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” https://t.co/NqW9d4dIlC

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