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No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.

One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into ones which we can neither predict nor control, to lead us down new roads whose contours and vistas provide us with new perspectives.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide.

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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.

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.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.