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Essays and Anecdotes

• Karen Armstrong - Preface to Islam: A Short History
• Sir Isaiah Berlin - The Hedgehog and the Fox - Excerpt
• Laura Bohannon - Shakespeare in the Bush
• James Gleick - Genius: Caltech - In Search of Genius
• Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

Favorite Poems

Folk Tales and Myths

• Coyote and Wasichu - Brule Sioux
• The Lost Horse - Chinese Folk Tale

Historical Writings and Speeches

• Selections from Safire, William (1997), Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York, NY. - This is a marvelous volume of speeches and worth collecting.  Here are some excerpts:
• Broadcaster Alistair Cooke and the State of the English Language
• John F. Kennedy, In Praise of Robert Frost, Celebrates the Arts in America
• Fredrick Douglass Cuts Through The Lincoln Myth To Consider The Man
• Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
• Richard P. Feynman
• Value of Science speech to the 1955 autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences

Oriental Philosophy

• From 101 Zen Stories - Transcribed by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps
• From Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai - By Dave Lowry

Scientific Writings

• Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene - Nice Guys Finish First
• Paul De Kruif - Microbe Hunters - Koch: The Death Fighter
• Michael Pollan - When A Crop Becomes King - July 19, 2002, New York Times
• Everett M. Rogers - Diffusion of Innovations - Excerpts
• Carl Sagan - The Fine Art of Baloney Detection - From The Demon-Haunted World

Short Stories and other Fragments

• Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman - Excerpt
• Beginning of the Armadillos - from Just-So-Stories by Rudyard Kipling
• Honest Abe