Karol Irzykowski Quotes & Sayings

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching. — Lloyd Bridges

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. — Benjamin Disraeli

Libraries must continue to make the shift toward the digital and away from print. The shift should not be overnight, but it should be made steadily and with great care. Libraries can and should de-accession physical materials much more aggressively than they do today, especially to save space and money when these materials are redundant with other local collections or digital forms of access to them. — John Palfrey

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone — Richard Sennett

Yet every democratic government is reluctant to face the fact. Reservists and citizen-soldiers stand ready, in every free nation, to stand to the colors and die in holocaust, the big war. Reservists and citizen-soldiers remain utterly reluctant to stand and die in anything less. None want to serve on the far frontiers, or to maintain lonely, dangerous vigils on the periphery of Asia. There has been every indication that mass call-ups for cold war moves may result in mass disaffection. — T.R. Fehrenbach