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People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

Reading is seeing by proxy.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

Read in order to live.

Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!

So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.