Quote that inspires: Everyday in everyway library staff make a difference - one person at a time

Extract:

Stephen Abram shared Hippie Peace Freaks's photo.

One of my favourite parables, originally told to me by Joel Barker. "Every day in every way library staff make a difference - one person at a time. Add 'em up."

Books can be dangerous

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled: "This could change your life." ThinkExist.com Quotations

Info Courtesy: Have you had a book that changed your life?

Stephen Abram shared Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library's photo.

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How to find credibility of a quote

The challenge of the day is finding credibility of a quote attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King:

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy."

In Google Power Search, Prof. Daniel M. Russell, Google's resident search anthropologist, teaches how to, a) Verify the credibility of information you find on the web, and b) To check your findings, just do one more search. He says: "Credibility--can you trust the information you find online? How can you find out whether information is accurate and true?"
Interestingly, on the Internet every creative sentence sounds interesting. But, most lack the required credibility--who said, when, how and where it can be verified.
Here are few researched articles, identified by Dan, on the ways to find if a statement is real or fake. Each of these relate to finding if a quote attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King was authentic:

Google Date Range Filter Simplifies Search Results, By Robert Strohmeyer, PCWorld

Anatomy of a Fake Quotation, by Megan McArdle

Out of Osama's Death, a Fake Quotation Is Born, By Megan McArdle

How to Spot a Fake, by Anna Berkes
On the same shelf: Where else can you verify a quote, check the following:

www.quoteworld.org

www.thinexist.com

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

T.S Eliot, in a 1922 essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent." Quoted now in 'Why Authors Tweet,' ANNE TRUBEK "140 Characters in Search of an Author." New York Times Book Review. January 6, 2012:31.

Many more literary quotes are in Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) pp. 149-150. Available @ Amazon.com

To teach how to catch fish... Quote on Power of Words

One quote and its variants:
Found a quote, quoted by many, did a search for the author... and the research continues...
Interestingly, many quotable quotes on the Web are either anonymous or supposedly said by someone.... Here is one very good example of a best practice (to teach how to catch fish, not just how to eat it):

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. — Unknown

"Your beliefs become your thoughts.
Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions.
Your actions become your habits.
Your habits become your values.
Your values become your destiny," [author, quoted as Gandhi (sounds Anonymous)], More variants @ http://www.iwise.com/vid/YdgXg

Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words.
Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions.
Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits.
Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character.
Be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny.
From freethechildren.org quoted in Power of Words

The research question was started, by Deacon Mike: An Itinerant Preacher, and the answers are @ Answers.com (see the extract below):

It seems this quote is widely attributed to “Frank Outlaw”. Like many things on the internet that you “stumble upon” there is a story behind the story. Here is one explanation on who may have first penned these words and I will leave it at that! Check out “Who is Frank Outlaw?” Source

Answer
A guy named frank who was an outlaw

Frank Outlaw was a supermarket manager who founded the Bi-Lo supermarkets in South Carolina. He played a supermarket manager in "Raising Arizona."

Answer
This quote is widely attributed to "Frank Outlaw" on the Web, but no actual other corroborating confirmation actually confirms that this is the correct source.
Popular quotation books - including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (17th ed., 2002), Roget's International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) and The Harper Book of Quotations (3rd ed., 1993) - DO NOT include this quote or any reference to Frank Outlaw.
In July 2003, a woman named "Elizabeth C.," claimed to have written it in 1998 and sending to members of an e-mail group of people living with lupus.

According to legend, her words were: "these few lines have since taken on a life of their own via the Internet. I was honored when someone asked if they could post it on their work bulletin board. From there it ended up as a desktop theme. It has traveled everywhere."

Answer
Your quote is from Charles Reade (1814-1884).
There is probably no such person as Frank Outlaw (though he may be a character - I haven't read any Reade :-).
Here in Germany it gets credited to the Talmud all the time, but Jewish authorities on the Web say this is not true.

Answer
I have heard from my colleague that this quote is very exact form a saying in Thai by a famous Thai monk, Achann Chaa of Wat Po Pong (1918-1992). Many of his sayings were known abroad during 1960s and 1970s. Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_Frank_Outlaw

Bottomline: "Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another" by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1912).


Quoted from Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 45. Available @ Amazon.com

Information Overload and Gandhi's Outlook

"It is well for us to realize that the great increase in knowledge in the world does not necessarily make us wiser or better. We must know how to use that knowledge properly before we rush ahead in our powerful car. We must have some idea of what the aim and object of life should be." Mohandas Gandhi

This quote also appears at theovercomer's Journal @ DailyStrength.org

Quoted from Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) pp. 149-150. Available @ Amazon.com

Preachers as Disseminators...

Those who preach and study, read or copy the Dharmaparyaya, are destined for supreme enlightenment, have always to be honoured, and are always helped by Buddha. in The sacred books of the east, 21, xxx, 213-36," 320-7;
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 15. See Amazon.com.

The investigation of the meaning of words...

"The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education." Antisthenes in Fragment (Greek philosopher of Athens, disciple of Socrates)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 16. See Amazon.com..

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Have you noticed that life...

Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987), French dramatist: The Rehearsal, 1950.

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 16. See Amazon.com.

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People feel no obligation to buy books

"People feel no obligation to buy books. It isn't their fault. Art seems cheap to them, because almost always it is cheap... People stick any kind of stuff together between covers and throw it at them." Letters of Sherwood Anderson Author: Howard Mumford (Edited by) Anderson]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 8. See Amazon.com.

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The Pen is the ultimate arbiter

"The pen is the ultimate arbiter of human actions in the sight of the Lord -- Justice Ameer Ali, in Spirit of Islam"

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 7. See Amazon.com.

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Eric Ambler on the Genre

“The thriller is an extension of the fairy tale. It is melodrama so embellished as to create the illusion that the story being told, however unlikely, could be true.” - Eric Clifford Ambler (28 June 1909 - 22 October 1998) was an influential English writer of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda. [wiki]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 7. See Amazon.com.

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NB. Title of this post, courtesy Julia Buckley @ Mysterious Musings

Knowledge dissemination

“In the matter of the spread of knowledge two conditions are prerequisites. There must be formal education. There must be literacy. Without these two, knowledge cannot spread.” -

Dr. B. R. Babasheb Ambedkar, Writings and Speeches, vol. 3, p. 41

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 7. See Amazon.com.

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With pen and pencil...

"With pen and pencil we're learning to say nothing, more cleverly eveyday” -
William Allingham, Blackberries (1884).

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See Amazon.com.

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See also:

• The Future of Electronic Paper
• Digital pens more trouble than they're worth
  

What is even a wise book

"What is even a wise book but a blast from the lungs made visible to the eyes?” -

Hervey Allen Anthony Adverse [see more quotes]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See Amazon.com.

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