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    Don't forget to support your public library.

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

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

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    Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

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    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.

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    E-books are impervious to analogy.

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

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

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

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

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    Every death is like the burning of a library.

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

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    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.

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    Every library is an arsenal.

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    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

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    Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    Freedom is a public library.

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

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    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.

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

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    Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

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    God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

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    Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

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    Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

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    Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

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    Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

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    Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

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    Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

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    He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

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    How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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    How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

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    How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

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    Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

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