Melvil Dewey quotes
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“A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.”
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“Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.”
-- Melvil DeweySource : Melvil Dewey (1888). “Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State”
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“To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.”
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“The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.”
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“The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.”
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“The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”
-- Melvil DeweySource : "The Relation of the State to the Public Library" by Melvil Dewey, 1889.
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“Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.”
-- Melvil DeweySource : "Melvil Dewey: His Enduring Presence in Librarianship".
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“Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.”
-- Melvil DeweySource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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