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Marilyn Johnson has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just…
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In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.
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Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
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They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons…
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Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
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We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for…
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Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good…
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We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though:…
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I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed…
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The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.
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In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,…
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Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read…
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if…
— P T Barnum
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of…
— Danny Boyle
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
— George W. Bush
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I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to…
— Richard Carmona
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the…
— Francis Bacon
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…
— Thomas Adams
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
— Samuel Johnson
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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