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Libraries Quotes by Carl Sagan
- I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can…
- If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of…
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? — Henry Ward Beecher
- That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. — Aphra Behn
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
- Libraries are not made, they grow. — Augustine Birrell
- I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges
- Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. — Ray Bradbury
- Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a… — Anthony Burgess
- Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child… — Laura Bush
- I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat… — George Carlin