"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."

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"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."

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"If music be the food of love, play on."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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"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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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

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Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."

John Owen, English Theologian

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"It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites."

Ralph Chaplin, American Activist

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"They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival."

Jeremy Rifkin, American Economist

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"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in."

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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

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"Books are humanity in print."

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"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

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