"But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information."

-- Neil Gaiman

#Communication Quotes #School Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans.”

Source : "Lawmakers, health professionals blast entertainment industry for marketing adult material to children" By Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2000.
“If Brock Lesnar was here right now, I'd take my boot off and throw it at him, and he'd better polish it up before he brings it back to me. Talking about he's the baddest guy in the UFC? Brock, quit eating so many raw eggs and doing push-ups because it's affecting your realm of reality. Are you kidding me? I'd slap you in your face, and you wouldn't do anything. 'I'm Brock Lesnar. I've got this $5 haircut and a knife tattooed on my chest.' I'll shove it up your face if you get in Chael Sonnen's way.”
“Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.”
“I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.”
“I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.”

Source : Frances E. Willard (2017). “A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way”, p.16, Read Books Ltd
“There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.”

Source : Interview with Jerry Hopkins in "Rolling Stone" Magazine No. 20, October 26, 1968.
“Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.”
“We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that Heâ€™ll do more than we expect.”

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