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"Library science was the foundation of all sciences."
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
Writing

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
People

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
Society

"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
Life

"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."
Science

"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."
Man

"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."
Love

"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip."
Trust

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
Happiness

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
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"Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario."
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"Library science was the foundation of all sciences."
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"The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog."
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"I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries."
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"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."
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"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
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"People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins."
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