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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.
• I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center…
• The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We…
• All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a…
• Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to…
• We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
• I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not…
• 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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