"The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity."

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Vartan Gregorian

#Race Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Library Quotes

“We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.”
“Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.”
“The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.”
“She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”
“As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.”

Source : "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Abstinence)". TV Series, June 5, 2006.
“Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.”
“Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony.”
“If it's in people's interest to invest in renewables and invest in clean technologies, I'm convinced it will happen.”

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