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"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.<br /><strong>Henri Frederic Amiel</strong>",
"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.<br /><strong>Isaac Asimov</strong>",
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.<br /><strong>Henry Ward Beecher</strong>",
"That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.<br /><strong>Aphra Behn</strong>",
"If your library is not unsafe, it probably isn't doing its job.<br /><strong>John Berry</strong>",
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.<br /><strong>Jorge Luis Borges</strong>",
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.<br /><strong>Anthony Burgess</strong>",
"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.<br /><strong>Laura Bush</strong>",
"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.<br /><strong>Michael Chabon</strong>",
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.<br /><strong>Marcus Tullius Cicero</strong>",
"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school, but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.<br /><strong>Sandra Cisneros</strong>",
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.<br /><strong>Norman Cousins</strong>",
"The time was when a library was very much like a museum, and a librarian was a mouser in musty books... The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher.<br /><strong>Melvil Dewey</strong>",
"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.<br /><strong>Rita Dove</strong>",
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.<br /><strong>Umberto Eco</strong>",
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.<br /><strong>Barbara Kingsolver</strong>",
"Your library is your paradise.<br /><strong>Desiderius Erasmus</strong>",
"I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.<br /><strong>Joseph Fiennes</strong>",
"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.<br /><strong>Cornelia Funke</strong>",
"Why buy a book when you can join a library.<br /><strong>Ricky Gervais</strong>",
"A library implies an act of faith.<br /><strong>Victor Hugo</strong>"
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