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• In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

  Alexander Smith

  Flower, Book, Past

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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• I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.

  Lynn Nottage

  War, Media, Different

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• Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

  Russell Banks

  Reflection, America, Community

  Russell Banks (2011). “Lost Memory of Skin”, p.95, Profile Books

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• Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something.  And your garden's your library.

  Nora Roberts

  Flower, Book, Garden

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy”, p.110, Penguin

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• As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

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• Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

  Huston Smith

  Hands, Culture, Facts

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.

  Maya Angelou

  New York, Children, Home

  "Interview: How Libraries Changed Maya Angelou’s Life". Interview with Angela Montefinise, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

  Stewart Brand

  Needs, Window

  How Buildings Learn ch. 3 (1994)

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• If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Rights, Sound

  "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity". Book by Lawrence Lessig, 2004.

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• The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Fall, Mean, Ribs

  Gretel Ehrlich (2010). “The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold”, p.53, Vintage

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• Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action appeared, where is lays out his case in a more popular form. The money sentences are “Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. It has happened again and again in the past, and it will happen in the future, too.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Past, Years, Two

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• In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Garden

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

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• Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Faces

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.222, tredition

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• More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Eye, Lovers

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• I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

  Alan Moore

  Opportunity, Today, Persons

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• The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Justice, Television, Filth

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• I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2011). “We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven”, p.298, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• 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.

  Sergey Brin

  Book, Black, Majority

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• Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.

  William O. Douglas

  Book, Home, Government

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• Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Heart, Phones

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• Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

  Richard Russo

  Bookstores, World, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 15, 2013

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• Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

  Rita Dove

  Book, Feelings, Asking

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• There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

  Rita Dove

  Reading, Aggravation, Want

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• I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

  Robin Hobb

  Running, Reading, Book

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• In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Believe, Book, Men

  "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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