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“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”
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“When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?â€� or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?”
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“It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it’s about time to open a snack bar.”
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“I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.”
― The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
― The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

“There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.”
― Hardly Knew Her
― Hardly Knew Her

“I wanted more time with the books. I wanted to spend the day in a quiet corner, sitting against a window, lost in words and worlds I had never been given access to.”
― The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
― The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.”
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“There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants
to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that
was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community,
not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians
were only as important as the community they inspired. If I
was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect
information, it would be to bring the community together and
inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for.”
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to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that
was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community,
not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians
were only as important as the community they inspired. If I
was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect
information, it would be to bring the community together and
inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for.”
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“A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that iconoclastic lady—was with us when we cleaned. She wore blue jeans, too. Maybe she was what people thought about when you said library, but she didn’t make the library. People made the library. That’s what made a library. Without them, all the sacredness was gone. It was just a building with books.”
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“I stopped in St. Bernadette's Cemetery one of my favorite places... The trunks of six giant oaks rise like columns supporting a ceiling formed by their interlocking crowns. In the quiet space below, is laid out an aisle similar to those in any library. The gravestones are like rows of books bearing the names of those whose names have been blotted from the pages of life; who have been forgotten elsewhere but are remembered here.”
― Fear Nothing
― Fear Nothing

“To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.”
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past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.”
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“Life itself was like a book borrowed from a library, something that didn't belong to me and was due to expire.”
― Eileen
― Eileen

“Libraries are medieval forests masking opportunity and danger; every aisle is a path, every catalog reference a clue to the location of the Holy Grail. It is here that I become privy to the sacred songs of kings and the ballads of rogues. Here are tales of life-and-death struggles of other wayfarers as they battle personal dragons and woo fair maidens. Walking down this hallway, I am a knight entering the forest in search of the truth...”
― A Hideous Beauty
― A Hideous Beauty

“No matter how beautifully you decorate a house, if there is no library in the house, then it cannot be a beautiful house!”
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“Mrs. Quisdorf picked that book out for you. That card, though, that's the real gift. It can take you anywhere, Loreda.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds

“if you look at history of this timeline and what has been accomplished, from crawling out of the dang swamp to flying spacebuds, it is difficult to wrap mind around how incredible libraries are. in the running for peak of human achievement and i feel this is sometimes forgotten”
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“Knowing that most people don’t have easy access to knowledge, I don’t take libraries for granted. I worship them.”
― Our Nepal, Our Pride
― Our Nepal, Our Pride

“THE BURNING OF THE BOOKS
When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power.
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!”
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When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power.
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!”
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“The only way to expand a small room extraordinarily without breaking its walls is to put a library in that room!”
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“The greatest education to be had can be found in a library full of books. There, we can meet with those who are no longer alive, visit faraway places, relive history from a front row seat, listen to many of the greatest minds who have even lived, take advice from the greatest of counselors, and learn from many of the world’s greatest teachers; all in a lonely aisle flanked with some dusty old books.”
― Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire
― Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“If you ask what is the staircase that ascends into the vastness of the universe, I would say it is a library, because the only thing that will build a staircase in a place without staircase is knowledge!”
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“If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they'll fly away. But if you spend your time making a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come.
Don't chase, attract.”
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Don't chase, attract.”
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“The best library is the one that fascinates you with its atmosphere and makes you immediately choose a book and start reading, even though you have no desire to read a book!”
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