Nancy Pearl Quotes
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.
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Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?
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If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.
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Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.
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I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.
