Vartan Gregorian Quotes

#1. The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

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#2. Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

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#3. Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.

Laini Taylor

#4. The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

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#5. Guy's own erection was so hard it ached, as if it were an angry dog begging to be let out and pawing at the door.

Edmund White

#6. In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

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#7. It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

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#8. Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock

#9. The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

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#10. The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

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#11. But even if the captain rewrites his own history, how could it affect your reality? I'm from a place you call a fairy tale, and I'm still here."
"But . . . the Vaadi Al-Maas was real once. People believed in it."
"I believe in you. Simple enough, right?" His smile was heartbreaking.

Heidi Heilig

#12. Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Frederick Buechner

#13. download the one you want from the cloud, go

Sharon Hurley

#14. I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

George Orwell

#15. The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

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#16. Humans have a global benchmark-standard of conduct that called humanity

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#17. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury

#18. Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

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#19. Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

Charles Stross

#20. It should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

James Fenimore Cooper

#21. Empathy is easier than anger, in the long-run.

Sam Owen

#22. I don't want the universe broken up just yet," drawled the Marquis. "I want to do a lot of beastly things before I die. I thought of one yesterday in bed.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

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#24. Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

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#25. Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

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#26. It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

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