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> [“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how often birds were mentioned in British poetry. Songsters like nightingales and Sky Larks appeared in literally dozens of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenn-kaufman/haunting-the-library-as-a-kid-reading-poetry-books-when-i-was-not/)

[Kenn Kaufman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenn-kaufman/)

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> [The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/the-problem-of-knowledge-is-that-there-are-many-more-books-on-birds/)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nassim-nicholas-taleb/)

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