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• A great library contains the diary of the human race. — Unknown Author
• No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then… — Lawrence Clark Powell
• A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. — Vicki Myron
• A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient… — Vicki Myron
• Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection. — Michael Dirda
• You can't have a great university without a great library. — Joe Paterno
• To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library… — Manly Hall
• There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering… — Gordon B. Hinckley
• What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library? — Italo Calvino
• Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she… — Garth Nix
• Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell
• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy,… — Gary Wolf

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