"A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it."

-- Melvil Dewey

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“The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game.”
“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,â€ she said. â€œSee, thatâ€™s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.”
“You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own ***** problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.”

Source : "8 More Priceless Bits of Wisdom from Lost Interviews with 20th Century Icons" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2014.
“For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.”
“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.”
“If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.”

Source : "Top Chef Finalist Carla Hall Dishes on the Competition". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2009.
“The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.”
“I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.”

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