825 Quotes About Library


  • Author Eric Schlosser
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    I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.

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  • Author Neal Stephenson
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    As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another.

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  • Author Patti Smith
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    I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

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  • Author Pete Seeger
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    Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

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  • Author Peter Singer
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    Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

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  • Author Phyllis Schlafly
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    The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

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