"The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior."

-- Amy Bloom

#Children Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Library Quotes

“When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.”
“Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal ***** is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.”
“There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.”
“The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.”
“From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.”

Source : John Gay, O. F. Owen (1857). “The fables of John Gay illustrated”, p.202
“Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.”
“The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.”
“Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted.”

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