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"Library science was the foundation of all sciences."
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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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"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."
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"I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries."
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"Library science was the foundation of all sciences."
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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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"A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead."
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"Librarians were like guardian angels, with graying hair and beady eyes, magnified through reading glasses, and always read to recommend new literary windows to gaze through."
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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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"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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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
Writing
"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
"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
"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."
Food
"Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run."
Simplicity
"She found as always that words on paper proved themselves, they were so beautifully true."
Literature
"If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved."
Politics
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