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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

Charles Kuralt

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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New York City
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Charles Bishop Kuralt
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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