"Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books."

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Source : "How to... use a library" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2003.

Guy Browning

#Book Quotes #Mean Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more. â€œI would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.”
“The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.”
“Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.”
“You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.”
“We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions.”
“I trained myself to be organized,”
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

Source : "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.
“Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named”

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