"Libraries are the future of reading."

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Source : "On eating your seed corn". www.courtneymilan.com. February 25, 2011.

Courtney Milan

#Reading Quotes #Library Quotes #Librarian Quotes

“Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.”
“I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.”
“It's a great feeling to be a part of something - see it from beginning to end - and it's a rare thing that anyone gets to do in any business.”
“Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.”
“Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.”

Source : Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage
“Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.”
“You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals -- my mission is complete.”

Source : "Lewis steps outside the ring". Interview with Karie Atkinson, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2004.

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