“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. [Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 1632] ”
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. [Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 1632] ”
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“ Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ”
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“ The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. ”
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“ Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. ”
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“ The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. ”
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ”
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“ Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ”
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“ You can't go on believing in Santa Claus and have the results be positive. ”
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“ Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. ”
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“ We have lost a sense of respect for serious, honest conduct. If we are moved merely by greed, and there's no longer any respect for decent or honest government, than we will suffer the results. ”
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“ Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. ”
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“ Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ”
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“ Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. ”
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ”
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ”
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“ For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in. ”
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“ Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. ”
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“ The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. ”
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“ For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in. ”
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“ The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled. ”
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ”
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“ For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in. ”
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“ To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents. ”
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“ No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. ”
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“ Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ”
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“ The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled. ”
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“ No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. ”
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