"Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library."

-- Jerzy Kosinski

#Library Quotes #Public Library Quotes

“As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2017). “Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
“I wear black while suckers wear pink.”
“Unity is not something we are called to create; it's something we are called to recognize.”
“We are very concerned all the time with figuring out new technologies and advances in science, but really [while] our future is dependent on science and progress, it's not less dependent on the way we treat each other.”
“The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.”
“There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.”
“Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.”

Source : Interview, 28 July 1955, quoted in James B. Simpson, Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957).
“The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website journalismjobs.com. Labash explained: 'The conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket.'”

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