"Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance."

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Source : Melvil Dewey (1888). “Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State”

Melvil Dewey

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“At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.”
“All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.”
“The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.”
“What Donald Trump is, is not movement of change, it's a reaction to global change, it's a total reaction to global change. It's transformational change in the world done by transportation, technology and all that. And people, most of Donald Trump's voters want to go back.”

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“The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to humans, it is guaranteed by law. All animals are free, but in a system of humans total freedom is anarchy. Humans have thrived by letting a dominant authority regulate freedom. Liberty is a freedom that the authority has granted or has been persuaded to grant. For centuries, the state and the people have negotiated, peacefully and violently.”
“I think throughout my life I've had an appreciation for how all of these things have to come together in order to realize and then sustain change.”
“Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.”
“You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.”

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