S. R. Ranganathan Quotes
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
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Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
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Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
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President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.
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For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.
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I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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There’s seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
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'We are supposed to set you a good example,' said Devonet. 'As a start, I will point out that a lady of refinement would not wish to be found so high in a tree.''Then I am a lady of refinement well and truly,' said Madouc, 'since I did not wish to be found.'
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In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.
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I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.
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Once the church is ready to associate with instituted power it is obliged to associate with all and sundry forms of the state. The scandal is that each time the church seeks to justify both its adaptation and the existing power. It continues to legitimize the state and to be an instrument of its propaganda.
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The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.
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I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.
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If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
