After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts — like a Chinese nest of boxes — oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front — in our ancestors, back and back until...
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Anonymous
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
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Shirley Abbott
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.
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Laurence Overmire
Our names were made for us in another century.
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Richard Brautigan
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port
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Anatole Broyard
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method–more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records–of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses...
A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
