"The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge."

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Source : John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated

John Jay Chapman

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“I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal.”
“I think the difference between a good song and a great song is... honestly, I think the lyrics, because if you have a really solid melody and solid track and everything is there but then the lyric is just okay, then you've got a good song.”
“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.”
“I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.”
“In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for allâ€”librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and theyâ€™re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.Dâ€¦In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.”

Source : Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins
“A holiday in a new dressÂ—can earth offer anything more enchanting?”
“Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.”
“As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.”

Source : Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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