I Resemble That Remark… (7!)

There is an amusing story of a young man who decides he wants to learn how to better relate to others.  He goes to a bookstore and is hard pressed to find anything to help him.  He finally comes up a book that seem helpful.  It is titled, “How to Hug.”  When he returns home he finds that he has bought Volume Nine of an encyclopedia!
— Leo Buscaglia
[That sounds exactly like something I would do…  —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2018	Mueller Investigation Comparison To #LyingDonald
2017	#DonTheCon And Russian Collusion
2016	Balance The Truth
2015	Still Itchin’
2014	One Life
2013	Reason Is Your Light
2012	Bordering Manhood
2011	Even Christ Couldn’t

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What Do Your Children See You Doing?

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
—  Leo Buscaglia
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On This Day In:
2018	Is #45 STILL Losing America
2017	We Sleep To Remember And We Sleep To Forget
2016	Useful Gift
2015	Who’s The Boss?
2014	What Counts In The Future
2013	Improper Sequence?
2012	Two Gems
2011	A True Test

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And The Same For Blogs And Posts

A book is a version of the world.  If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
––  Salman Rushdie
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On This Day In:
2018	The End Of Asgard (For Now)
	I Learn The Hard Way Every Time
2017	For Some
2016	Fragile And Explosive, Provocation And Privacy
2015	Bound Up
2014	Economic Engines
2013	Weren’t You Supposed To Be Reading?
	Absent Friends
	Where I Stand
2012	Hangin’ With His P’s
	Help Save
2011	Six Facets Of Good Leadership

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A State With No Business

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
—  Thurgood Marshall
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On This Day In:
2018	Reflections
2017	Opposites Attract
2016	Completely Unreasonable
	Starting To Be A Reacher
2015	Avengers Assemble II
	But If I Had To Perish Twice…
2014	Turning Pages
2013	We Are All Accountable
2012	American Sign Language
2011	Happy Disproof
2010	Book Review – Managing Your Government Career

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Two Books

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
––  John Green
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
––  Marcel Proust
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On This Day In:
2018	Prime Example = #45
2017	Building On
2016	Dueling Heroes
2015	Remarkable Creations
2014	Measured Faith
2013	April Fool, n.
2012	Faith, Ego And Patriotism
	As It Happens
2011	What Counts

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Carrying Humanity

Books are the carriers of civilization.
Without books history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.  They are the engines of change, windows on the world (as a poet said) lighthouses erected in the sea of time.  They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind.  Books are humanity in print.
—  Barbara W. Tuckman
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On This Day In:
2018	Not Necessarily In This Order
	Stock Market Sets More Records Under #DumbDonald
2017	An Accumulation Of Acts
2016	Here’s Lookin’ At You Kid
2015	How To Be Omnipotent
2014	The Promise Of Future Love
2013	Christian, n.
2012	Praise
	Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
2011	A Few More Lyrics From The Past
	5 For The Price Of 1

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The Trouble With Bookstores

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
—  Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
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On This Day In:
2017	Biased World View
2016	Control In The Age Of Entanglement
2015	Okay, Maybe Not Ceaseless
2014	Can Do
2013	Are You Helping?
2012	Inside All Truth Is A Vacuum
2011	So, Whom Are We Trying To Fool Then?

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