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Don't Defy The Diagnosis, Try To Defy The Verdict.

Never Deny A Diagnosis, But Do Deny The Negative Verdict That May Go With It.

Pessimism Is A Waste Of Time.

But We Have Yet To Make Peace Basic To Our Education. The Most Important Subject In The World Is Hardly Taught At All. In The Spirit Of This Passage, The Editor Has Taken The Liberty Of Editing Mr. Cousins' Language To Make It More Gender Inclusive.

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.