"There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next."

-- Laurence Overmire

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“If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.”

Source : "Obama Economic Adviser Says U.S. Should Consider 'Value-Added Tax'". www.foxnews.com. April 07, 2010.
“Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.”
“Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.”
“A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.”
“I think a lot of people are aware of the things I do, but maybe because of who I am, they don't want to report the good things about Albert Belle.”
“Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.”
“There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested - the cigar smoking and drinking that's imprinted on his voice.”
“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.”

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