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“With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.”

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Rossiter Johnson

Rossiter Johnson was a prominent American author. Born on January 27, 1840, and passing away in 1931, Johnson's works spanned a variety of fields, including history, literature, and philosophy. more

“When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?”

“The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.”

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Author:William O. Douglas

“A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.”

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Author:Alfred Whitney Griswold

“Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.”

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Author:Charles Guggenheim

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