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«Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.»
Author: Georges Bernanos | Keywords: come off, despises, endowed, hospitals, installment, installments, judas, laboratories, Libraries, magnificent, niche, niches, public funds, public libraries, public library, scheme, The Deal
«The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.»
Author: Lesley Conger | About: Education | Keywords: bus, buses, busses, bus fare, cents, fare, fared, fares, faring, fee, five, library, once in a while, overdue, public education, public libraries, public library, tuition, very much
«If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.»
Author: Tony Benn (Politician) | Keywords: basket, fifty, file, filed, files, file in, filing, library, public libraries, public library, waste-paper basket, waste basket, waste paper
«It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to boys and girls who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library»
Author: Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist, Philanthropist) | Keywords: applied, Boys and Girls, founding, productive, public libraries, public library, the founding
«The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.»
Author: William Osler (Physician) | Keywords: dragons, fallacies, fallacy, fiery, interpose, interposed, interposing, librarian, librarians, Libraries, manage, public libraries, public library, public servant, reader, servants, the books, The Librarian, The Public Interest
«RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: bequest, bequests, endowing, founding, Libraries, public libraries, public library, the founding, universities
«His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.»
Author: Douglas Adams (Writer) | Keywords: explosion, Explosions, library, mess, messes, messing, public libraries, public library, results, study, The Explosion, total
«A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Libraries | Keywords: affection, an event, enduring, event, library, memorials, monument, preservation, public libraries, public library, respected, revolutions, survives, The Monument, trustiest, trusty, wars
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: affords, conviction, library, public libraries, public library, Public place, striking, vanity
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Libraries | Keywords: affords, crowded, inquiry, laborious, meditations, public libraries, public library, The C, volumes
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