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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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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an…
— David McCullough
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Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation…
— Richard Rorty
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The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it…
— James Howard Kunstler
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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…
— Bob Black
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The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They…
— Stewart Udall
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The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our…
— Frank B. Kellogg
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We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.
— Wole Soyinka
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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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Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
— Cokie Roberts
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