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The Main Trouble With Despair Is That It Is Self-fulfilling. People Who Fear The Worst Tend To Invite It. Heads That Are Down Can't Scan The Horizon For New Openings. Bursts Of Energy Do Not Spring From A Spirit Of Defeat. Ultimately, Helplessness Leads To Hopelessness.

For Every Low There Is An Equal But Opposite High.

The Library Is Not A Shrine For The Worship Of Books. It Is Not A Temple Where Literary Incense Must Be Burned Or Where One's One Devotion To The Bound Book Is Expressed In Ritual. A Library, To Modify The Famous Metaphor Of Socrates, Should Be The Delivery Room For The Birth Of Ideas - A Place Where History Comes To Life.

Nixon's Motto Was, If Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right, Try Three.

Humanity Today Is Not Safe In The Presence Of Humanity. The Old Cannibalism Has Given Way To Anonymous Action In Which The Killer And The Killed Do Not Know Each Other, And In Which,indeed, The Very Fact Of Mass Death Has The Effect Of Making Mass Killing Less Reprehensible Than The Death Of A Single Individual. In Short, We Have Evolved In Every Respect Except Our Ability To Protect Ourselves Against Human Intelligence. Our Knowledge Is Vast But Does Not Embrace The Workings Of Peace.