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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment…
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The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
— Matthew Lesko
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
— Katharine Hepburn
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but…
— William James
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for…
— Carl Sagan
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We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the…
— Julian Simon
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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
— David Strathairn
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Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs…
— Louis L'Amour
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