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pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
28 Nov 07
Kind of curious here. I like to think I'm an open-minded person and love to learn anything new. I'll read and study just about anything. Though I no longer am a member, though wouldn't mind rejoining, around 1980 I became involved...
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sukumar794
@sukumar794 (5040)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
4 Aug 07
The wise saying of Francis Bacon goes thus "Reading maketh a full man ...." It holds good no matter what the advent of visual media or the computrs pose a threat. Only through reading that we gain mastery over a particular line...
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Woodpigeon
@Woodpigeon (3710)
• Ireland
20 Apr 07
"If a man be gracious and couteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them."
Mr Bacon lived from 1561-1626, and I believe...
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