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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Don't forget to support your public library.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

Dear me, how I love a library.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Every library is an arsenal.

Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

FedDev Ontario's investment in the Glanworth Branch Library has enhanced this unique landmark into an accessible learning hub for local community members. When we improve facilities, we are strengthening our communities and building a prosperous southern Ontario.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

Freedom is a public library.

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.