"I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all."

-- Gillian Roberts

#Thinking Quotes #Offering Quotes #House Quotes

“Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.”

Source : The Health Master Ch.3
“Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.”
“If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.”
“Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.”
“It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.”

Source : "My nine to five: Caprice Bourret" by Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.
“Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.”

Source : "The innovators: arts and entertainment". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.
“So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.”
“The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”

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