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I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
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I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center…
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The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We…
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All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a…
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Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to…
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We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
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I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not…
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As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of…
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As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it,…
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Digital data are more fragile than printed material.
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My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
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While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced…
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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty…
— Gordon Brown
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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is…
— Tom G. Palmer
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I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you…
— Ilka Chase
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People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting…
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There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a…
— Oriana Fallaci
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I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.
— Ty Burr
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There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real…
— Tim Heidecker
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
— Norman Douglas
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
— John Adams
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
— Alain de Botton
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Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to…
— Robert Darnton
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