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#1

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

#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

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: libraries, reading

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#4

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

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#5

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#6

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

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#7

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
― Anne Herbert

tags: book-lovers, books, money, reading

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#8

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: hope, humanity, library

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#9

“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

tags: books, library

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#10

“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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#11

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: library

984 likes

#12

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#13

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#14

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#15

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world

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#16

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: inspirational, life

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#17

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

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#18

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: change, changes, courage, encouragement, exploration, growing, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life-and-living, self-discovery

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#19

“How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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