Don't Defy The Diagnosis, Try To Defy

The Great Challenge Of The '90s... Is To Salvage And Improve The Un And To Develop It Into An Agency Capable Of Meeting The Wide Range Of Serious Problems That Are Inherent In A World That Has Become A Single Geographic Unit.

The Purpose Of Education Is To Enable Us To Develop To The Fullest That Which Is Inside Us

The Main Trouble With Despair Is That It Is Self-fulfilling. People Who Fear The Worst Tend To Invite It. Heads That Are Down Can't Scan The Horizon For New Openings. Bursts Of Energy Do Not Spring From A Spirit Of Defeat. Ultimately, Helplessness Leads To Hopelessness.

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.

If News Is Not Really News Unless It Is Bad News, It May Be Difficult To Claim We Are An Informed Nation