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#1

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

tags: death, immortality, remembrance

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#2

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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#3

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, libraries, library, reading

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#4

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought

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#5

“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: librarians, libraries, space, time

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#6

“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

tags: books, libraries

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#7

“Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, fact, librarians, libraries

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#8

“Libraries are our friends.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: libraries

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#9

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words

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#10

“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: libraries

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#11

“People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

tags: humor, librarians, libraries

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#12

“Reading is important.
Books are important.
Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, libraries, newbery-medal-acceptance-speech, reading

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#13

“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

tags: books, bookshelves, libraries, tsundoku

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#14

“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos. ”
― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

tags: funny, libraries

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#15

“I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.”
― John Jakes, Homeland

tags: libraries, library

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#16

“It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.”
― Jo Walton

tags: libraries

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#17

“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: civilization, libraries

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#18

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: administration, airlines, bail, bail-out, banker, bankers, banking, banking-system, banks, best-leader, big-business, big-pharma, bipartisan, capitalism, censor, common-man, companies, confident, conservation, corporations, corrupt, corruption, country, democrat, diplomacy, diplomatic, diversity, divide, divides, division, doctor, doctors, education, educators, election, elections, employment, environment, environmental, environmentalism, environmentalist, equality, families, farmer, for-the-people, foreign-relations, freedom, freedom-of-speech, funding, good-leader, government, government-corruption, guide, health-care, heart-driven, homes, honest, honest-broker, human-condition, humble, identify, incentives, indentifies, integrity, intelligent, job, jobs, justice, lead, leader, leaders, leadership, leadership-characteristics, leadership-traits, libraries, library, lie, lies, lobbyist, losing, make-america-great-again, man-on-the-street, money, money-driven, mortage, mortages, nation, oil, oil-tycoon, peace, peacekeeper, peacemaker, people, pharma, pharmaceutical, pick-a-leader, picking-sides, political-science, politics, president, presidential, protection, race, racism, republican, school, schools, selecting, serves-the-people, sly, speech, spending, street, street-level, strong, teacher, teachers, truth, understand, understanding, unites, vote, voter, voting, war, we-the-people, wisdom, word

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#19

“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: bail, bail-out, bankers, banking, banks, best-leader, big-business, capitalism, companies, confident, corporations, democrat, diplomacy, diplomatic, diversity, education, employment, environmentalist, families, farmer, good-leader, government, government-corruption, guide, health-care, homes, honest, humble, identify, incentives, indentifies, integrity, intelligent, job, lead, leader, leadership, libraries, nation, oil-tycoon, people, pick-a-leader, protection, racism, republican, schools, selecting, serves-the-people, sly, teachers, understand

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#20

“Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.”
― Cecil B. DeMille, The Autobiography of Cecil B. Demille

tags: books, humor, libraries

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#21

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

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#22

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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#23

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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#24

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

tags: democrats, liberal, politics

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#25

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting

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#26

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: politics

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#27

“I am a mage,” she replied with every ounce of haughtiness three years in a competitive doctoral program had taught her. “We bend the rules of the universe on a daily basis. Presumptuousness is the base line for entry.”
― Rachel Aaron, Nice Dragons Finish Last

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#28

“Why are mortals always so eager to declare things impossible, anyway? It’s not like things do or don’t exist just because you say so.”
― Rachel Aaron, Nice Dragons Finish Last

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#29

“Help us, Juli-wan Kenobi, you're our only hope."
For a moment, that almost, almost made Julius feel like a hero. And then he remembered. "Doesn't Obi-Wan die in that movie?”
― Rachel Aaron, One Good Dragon Deserves Another

tags: dragons, funny, heartstrikers, julius, obi-wan-kenobi, star-wars

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#30

“We have a very busy schedule of cryptic proclamations and appearing where we’re least expected to get back to.”
― Rachel Aaron, No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished

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