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

Henry Ward Beecher
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Your library is your portrait.

Holbrook Jackson
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. -Lawrence Clark Powell
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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
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A library is thought in cold storage.

Herbert Samuel
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. -Barbara W. Tuchman
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Barbara Kingsolver
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In Cambodia, they said the problem was that the kids couldn't get to the schools or libraries, so we donated bicycles.

John Wooden
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We?re going to have to face this question about the libraries eventually. -Scott Rayburn
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Surveys with kids have shown that the reason they don't use libraries is because they don't have any space.

Laura Holtslander
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If they managed the city budget better, I would think they would not have to close down libraries and museums.

Deborah Mitchell
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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. -Hugo Ball
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We also benefited in the past year at all of our libraries from donations.

Martina Kominiarek
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If there's a war on formats, owners of libraries will make less money.

Lawrence Haverty
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I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there. -Jim Taylor
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We're talking about cuts to libraries my children use.

Scott Somers
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It is really important to have a good sale this year because the libraries' budget for new books from the county has been cut by 80 percent this year.

Cathy Clark
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What we're doing is dispelling that stereotype as libraries being this place where it's very quiet and you have to tip-toe around. -Peg Burington
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We are inaugurating one of the single most important and beautiful libraries in North America.

Paul Leclerc
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

Ada Louise Huxtable
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We're looking forward to folks from other libraries coming up to see our library, since it's only a couple of blocks away. -Robin Beerbower
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

Carl Stokes
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That?s why libraries are still struggling.

Joanne Vavrek
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Back in the good old days, marketing and PR for libraries consisted of a flier or a bookmark. Now, we have to be just as commercially minded as the private sector. -Valerie Maginnis
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RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.

Ambrose Bierce
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There's police, fire, libraries, sanitation, and people need to know and digest that.

Rafael Mojica
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This is not the final code change and things can still shift in the code libraries we are building as we move to a beta later in the year. -Brian Goldfarb
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They wanted to do it on a bigger scale. The girls called up all the libraries and requested the space.

Cathi Kellett
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We work with all the libraries of Somerset County, and several of them have dedicated spaces for us.

Beth Kullback
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This will pretty much put the libraries back together. -Jim Steinberg
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