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The Library...at the Academy Awards?!?!
"I believe he told his mother where the library is."
– Jon Stewart, jokingly translating Javier Bardem's remarks in Spanish during his Best Supporting Actor acceptance speech
– Jon Stewart, jokingly translating Javier Bardem's remarks in Spanish during his Best Supporting Actor acceptance speech
Writing is power.
In his book The Ethics of Rhetoric, Richard Weaver says that the right to utter a sentence is one of the world’s greatest freedoms. It is the “liberty to handle the world, to remake it, if only a little, and to hand it to others in a shape which may influence their actions.” Speech and writing constitute what Weaver calls “the office of assertion,” a force adding itself to the other forces of the world. Writing is power. If you write well, you can have an impact.
Quote of the month:
February 2008: "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there." — Clare Booth Luce
January 2008: "...a person reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life." Garrison Keillor, ALA Annual Conference
October 2007: "No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."
-Amelia Earhart
January 2008: "...a person reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life." Garrison Keillor, ALA Annual Conference
October 2007: "No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."
-Amelia Earhart
Librarians:
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.
— Sir William Osler, 1917
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