[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.