"Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored."

-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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“Gesture is not always action.”
“Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishment of a central worldwide dictatorship.”
“I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.”
“All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.”
“Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.”
“Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.”
“Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.”
“Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.”

Source : Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.9, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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