There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been … - Alfred North Whitehead

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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

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The motive of success is not enough.

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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

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Arthur Curley

Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . .

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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

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Victoria Chang

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He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

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