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“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.”

Norman Cousins quotes (American Essayist and Editor, long associated with the Saturday Review. 1912-1990)

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“I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.”

Alexander Smith quotes (Scottish Poet and Essayist, 1830-1867)

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“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”

Phillip Adams quotes

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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.”

Henri Frederic Amiel quotes (Swiss writer known for his masterpiece Journal intime, 1821-1881)

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“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”

Jo Godwin quotes

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“What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.”

Archibald MacLeish quotes (American Poet and Critic. 1892-1982)

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“"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."”

Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)

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“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”

Stephen Fry quotes

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“I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.”

Rodney Dangerfield quotes (American Comedian, 1921-2004)

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“Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.”

Dwight David Eisenhower quotes (American 34th President (1953-61). 1890-1969)

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“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”

Claudia Lady Bird Johnson quotes (American born Ancient Scythian First Lady (wife of Lyndon B. Johnson), b.1912)

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