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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.
Meek young men grow up in libraries.
The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
Support your libraries... or else!
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. _x000D_ You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
A library is a room where the murders take place.
The Bön texts are thousands of years old, and I am sure that not even 7 percent of what is still in monasteries, libraries and caves has been translated. Even without taking into consideration the spiritual aspect, Bön should be preserved as a treasure for humanity just for its cultural aspect.
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