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Thought Provoking Quotes by Doris Lessing
- The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
- With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no…
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- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
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- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
- A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
- Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett
- Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to… — Isaiah Berlin
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. — Ambrose Bierce