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Letter "L" » Libraries
«To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.»
«There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.»
«The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den»
Author: Phillip Adams
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About:
Books
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Keywords:
addiction,
counterpart,
counterparts,
den,
fierce,
forcing,
heroin,
heroin addiction,
junkie,
junkies,
junky,
Libraries,
literary,
nicotine,
opium,
opium den,
shops
«There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.»
«To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.»
Author: Timothy Healy
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About:
Libraries
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Keywords:
captured,
captures,
centuries,
civilization,
conversation,
ears,
Libraries,
Noisier,
noisiest,
noisy,
shelves,
voices
«Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future»
«The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.»
Author: William Osler
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Physician)
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Keywords:
dragons,
fallacies,
fallacy,
fiery,
interpose,
interposed,
interposing,
librarian,
librarians,
Libraries,
manage,
public libraries,
public library,
public servant,
reader,
servants,
the books,
The Librarian,
The Public Interest
«What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?»
«The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist / this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul / a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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Keywords:
art museums,
country music,
developing,
developing countries,
encounter,
galleries,
gifted,
groups,
keen,
laboratory,
Libraries,
mosque,
mosques,
museums,
music school,
school year,
specialist,
specialists,
temple,
The Specialist
«The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.»