Carnegie's Maid Quotes

As Mrs. Barrett Browning says, ‘The world of books is still the world.

Andra, you know what they say. Any fool can earn money, but it takes a wise man to keep it.

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We're all pretending in this life, one way or another.

Castles designed not for a medieval siege but for life. A privileged life, that was.

I knew no one in Dublin. But the other Clara Kelley certainly did. That letter could only be for her.

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My afternoons with him were the only moments of authenticity in a world brimming with artifice. Minutes where I could build a pathway to hope.

You are a lady, Miss Kelley. No other woman of my acquaintance is as graceful in her demeanor or as elegant in her thinking.

I can not describe to you the impact that library had on my life and my success. It quite literally made me who I am today.

From this experience, I learned that when you’ve gone astray, a helping hand will always emerge from the darkness.

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I have searched for you for well over a year. I have hired detectives and bounty hunters and I have employed my own security men as well. They have looked in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and pretty much everywhere in between. Even the staunchest of private detectives found not a trace of you after you left the bank in Pittsburgh. It was as if you never existed. But you did exist, Clara. You stamped your mark upon me, and I will stamp your mark upon the world to prove your existence and remind myself to stay your course. As you would have desired, any fortune I amass will be dedicated for the betterment of mankind, particularly the education and improvement of the poorer and immigrant classes by the establishment of free libraries.

Andrew Carnegie, who is the man who built this free library and thousands more libraries with his own money. A man who gave the gift of books and education to every person, regardless of how much money they had.

These Catholic Irish running from the havoc wreaked by their famine and pouring onto American shores are not like the hard-working Protestant Irish who immigrated in earlier years. This new Catholic crop is rough and uneducated, and they’ll destroy the fabric of this country’s shaky democracy if we let them, especially in these days of Civil War unrest,

The man began speaking to me. “When I was a boy, I worked as a messenger for the telegraph company. The sky was even darker from the mills then than it is today, and on bad days, I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. To deliver my messages in the allotted time, I had to memorize the streets because I couldn’t always see where I was going. Sometimes, I’d have to assist deliverymen who’d lost their way by walking along the curb with one hand on their horses. From this experience, I learned that when you’ve gone astray, a helping hand will always emerge from the darkness.

Though you have no obligation to do so.” “When we left Dunfermline in 1848, I was twelve and Tom was four, a white-haired child with beautiful, black eyes. We were destitute. My father had been a weaver—he made damask, to be precise, which made him a king among working folk in our town—but the industrial tide had turned against his profession, and he couldn’t

Moravec’s Paradox. Hans Moravec was a professor of mine at Carnegie Mellon University, and his work on artificial intelligence and robotics led him to a fundamental truth about combining the two: contrary to popular assumptions, it is relatively easy for AI to mimic the high-level intellectual or computational abilities of an adult, but it’s far harder to give a robot the perception and sensorimotor skills of a toddler. Algorithms can blow humans out of the water when it comes to making predictions based on data, but robots still can’t perform the cleaning duties of a hotel maid. In essence, AI is great at thinking, but robots are bad at moving their fingers.

None of the Slab Town houses had running water, and the well water used by the local families smelled foul without extensive boiling.

therefore should I be careful to choose that life which will be the most elevating in its character.

I walked with purpose. I hadn’t a clue where I was headed, but I couldn’t afford any hesitation that marked me as weak.

The Only Woman in the Room, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, Carnegie's Maid, The Other Einstein, and Lady Clementine. All have been translated into multiple languages. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family.  Victoria Christopher Murray is an acclaimed author with more than one million books in print. She has written more than twenty novels, including Stand Your Ground, an NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Fiction and a Library Journal Best Book of the Year.

We all tell tales, Clara. Sometimes for ourselves, and sometimes for others.

The very least I should do is suffer your absence quietly. But I cannot.

These old New York society people maintain that all people are not equal, that they are superior to all other classes. I thought you believed in freedom and opportunity for all people. That view is the antithesis of what these people espouse.

many times every day.

Mrs. Barrett Browning says, ‘The world of books is still the world.

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Whatever I engage in I must push inordinately; therefore should I be careful to choose that life which will be the most elevating in its character.

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Where was the dignity in constantly suppressing your own needs, views, and rights for others?

I can distinctly remember standing before those bookshelves and feeling inspired and overwhelmed by the opportunities found there.