"I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems."
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"When in doubt, go to the library."
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"You're a library of me."
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"Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now."
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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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"Libraries really are the gates to the future."
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"If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut."
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"Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing."
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"I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared."
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"The function of a great library is to store obscure books."
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"I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge."
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"I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own."
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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."
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"If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified."
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"You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for."
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"The Library is a wilderness of books."
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"I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself."
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"What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?"
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"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."
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"The public library system of the United States is worth preserving."
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