// JavaScript Document // Author: Bongalon // Title: Random Quotes (Change GLOW Quote on Page Refresh) // Version: 1.0 quotesTable = [ ["Libraries are 'institutions of memory'; they are institutions that bring things together that do not exist elsewhere... We need libraries... we need books.", "Thomas Gaehtgens, Ph.D., GRI Director"], ["My library Was dukedom large enough.", "Shakespeare, The Tempest"], ["They are the books, the arts, the academes, that show, contain and nourish all the world.", "William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost"], ["A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.", "Richard de Bury"], ["Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds.", "Richard Armour, 'Library'"], ["A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.", "Shelby Foote"], ["Libraries are 'institutions of memory'; they are institutions that bring things together that do not exist elsewhere... We need libraries... we need books", "Thomas Gaehtgens, Ph.D., GRI Director"], ["We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.", "John Lubbock"], ["Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.", "Lady Bird Johnson"], ["Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.", "Charles Medawar"], ["I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.", "Alexander Smith"], ["I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on a set, I go to the other room to read a book.", "Groucho Marx"], ["The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.", "Descartes"], ["Book lovers never go to bed alone.", "Unknown"], ["The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.", "Ross MacDonald"], ["All that mankind has done, though, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.", "Thomas Carlyle"], ["Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.", "Richard Powers"], ["Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.", "Unknown"], ["People will not be better than the books they read.", "Bishop Potter"], ["I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.", "Jorge Luis Borges"], ["The dissemination of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of civilization.", "John F. Budd"], ["To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.", "Cicero"], ["Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.", "Barbara Tuchman"], ["I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all of the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.", "Luigi Barzini"], ["There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.", "Andrew Carnegie"], ["The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.", "Lesley Conger"], ["It is impossible to enter a large library... without feeling an inward sensation of reverence, and without catching some sparks of noble emulation, from the mass of mind which is scattered around you.", "James Crossley"], ["A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.", "Richard de Bury"], ["Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.", "Germaine Greer"], ["To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.", "Timothy Healy"], ["And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.", "Thomas Jefferson"], ["The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.", "J. A. Langford"], ["The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker-- it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.", "Theodore Parker"] ]; // select a random quote and display it function showRandomQuotation() { randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotesTable.length); theMessage = quotesTable[randomIndex]; quote = theMessage[0]; author = theMessage[1]; document.write("

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