"Library: A place where the dead lie."
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"The most beautiful people are all in the library."
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"With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities."
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"America, why are your libraries full of tears?"
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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see."
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"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries."
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"The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it."
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"Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card."
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"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."
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"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book."
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"When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library."
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"Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy."
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"The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den."
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"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about."
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"Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom"
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"Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries."
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"I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK."
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"The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives."
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