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  • Junius The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Rowan The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Branford Marsalis The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Santayana The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Deming The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Alva Myrdal The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Ann Landers The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • John Heywood The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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