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 | "I"m spending more time at this library in four days than I did at
the Eureka College Library in four years. Ronald Reagan during the opening
ceremonies for the library that will house his white house papers." | |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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| "If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes." | |
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Alexander III "the Great"
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| "Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he
wrote himself, but most of them were written for him." | |
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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| "No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human
hopes than a public library." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Revolutions are not made; they come." | |
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Wendell Phillips
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| "The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a
temple where literary incense must be burned or where one?s one devotion
to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous
metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas ?
a place where history comes to life." | |
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Norman Cousins
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| "To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no
future." | |
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Ray Bradbury
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