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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live
Norman Cousins
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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
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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life
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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. 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.— Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475
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The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it
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