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What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the House of Books, or Ordainers of the Universe. 'Librarian' - that mouth-contorting, graceless grind of a word, that dry gulch in the dictionary between 'libido' and 'licentious' - it practically begs you to envision a stoop-shouldered loser, socks mismatched, eyes locked in a permanent squint from reading too much microfiche. If it were up to me, I would abolish the word entirely and turn back to the lexicological wisdom of the ancients, who saw librarians not as feeble sorters and shelvers but as heroic guardians. In Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian cultures alike, those who toiled at the shelves were often bestowed with a proud, even soldierly, title: Keeper of the Books. - p.113


Miles Harvey


#genius #librarian #titles #men

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.


Andre Agassi


#best #challenge #fighting #here #hurts

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.


Gloria Allred


#dying #entitlement #gives #male #painful

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.


Sue Kelly


#entitled #government #hudson #i #improving

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.


Marco Rubio


#cutting #entitlement #entitlement programs #fiscal #just

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.


Carl Sandburg


#get #think #till #title #up

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.


Eduardo Saverin


#bank #banker #facebook #me #people

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#equally #existence #existences #few #leibniz

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.


Laurence Sterne


#acquaintance #books #brag #learn #lords

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.


Laurence Sterne


#brass #coins #current #gold #honor