"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."

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Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

Lawrence Clark Powell

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“Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is but one reason. He is not living, except in rare cases here and there, in the conscious realisation of his own true Being, and hence of his own true Self.”
“All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.”
“There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.”
“Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.”

Source : Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
“Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .”
“This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.”
“Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard!”

Source : "Meet the Bearded Drag Queen Who’s Taking Europe by Storm" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. May 9, 2014.
“The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to say that it helps to establish or refute some general law; for science, though it starts from observation of the particular, is not concerned essentially with the particular, but with the general. A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. In this the scientist differs from the artist, who, if he deigns to notice facts at all, is likely to notice them in all their particularity.”

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