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"Outside of a dog a book is
Man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
.......--
Groucho Marx
"Between two evils I always pick
the one I never tried before." ....-- Mae West
"The seven blunders of the world:
wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without
character, commerce without morality, science without humanity,
worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"A man should keep
his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he
is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber
room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
-- Sherlock Holmes in "The Five Orange Pips" by Sir
Arthur Conan-Doyle .
"Expect anything. Hope for everything.
Fear nothing!"
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
Good, Fast, and Cheap: Which two of the three would you like?
"I saw the truth, and it made no sense."
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people."
"Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics
is its language -- and civilization will rise or fall depending
on how well librarians do their jobs." --Robert A. Heinlein
Knowledge itself is the very best kind of fun.
- Pat Lambert
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive;
the 'learned' find themselves fully equipped to live in a world
that no longer exists." --Eric Hoffer
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." - Benjamin
Franklin
Vita saepe dulcis est sed Scintillulae semper dulciores sunt
(Life is often sweet but Twinkies are always sweeter) -- John
Dyson
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death
that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit
it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past
I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has
gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
--Litany Against Fear - Bene Gesserit Rite - Dune
"Meet every man or woman as you find him, for we're all
made the same under habit, or robe or rags. Some better made
than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern,
all."
-- Brother Cadfael
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have
others."
-- Groucho Marx
We ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if
possible, to speak a few reasonable words -- Johann W. von Goethe
That which does not kill us makes us
stronger --Nietzche
"Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable
when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise
party." -- Jimmy Buffett (A Pirate Looks at Fifty)
"...one of the secret masters of the world: a Librarian.
They control information. Don't ever piss one off." -- The
Callahan Touch: Spider Robinson
"Unless you do something beyond what you have already mastered
you will never grow"
-- Ronald Osborne
"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and
shine when the sun is out; but, when the darkness sets in, their
true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Willow: We should go with Giles. He may be in danger.
Xander: Nah, he's like, Super Librarian. People forget, Willow,
that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
If in today's society information is seen more and more as a
commodity having value, what price those who provide this information?
" Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and
you help them to become what they are capable of being."
-- Johann W. von Goethe
"Now when I die I don't want wings,
a golden halo or a harp that sings
Give me a book, a fire, and someone who brings
chocolate chip cookies all day." -- Bill Steele
"Technology and librarians are the yin and yang of information
management."
-- Leigh Buchanan, Inc. Magazine
Don't confuse neatness with organization.
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