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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    Cindy Woodsmall
    “Facing our fears, skeletons, and mistakes is paramount in finding ourselves-in living with ourselves. Once it's done, that fear will be laid to rest, and she'll be stronger for having dealt with it and have more peace becausse she's not carrying the weight of that fear every day and night.”
    ― Cindy Woodsmall, When the Soul Mends
    tags: amish-fiction, christian-fiction
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    Kimberly Cutter
    “Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the air, before dissolving into sunlight.”
    ― Kimberly Cutter, The Maid
    tags: christian, christian-fiction, france, historical-fiction, history, medieval-history
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
    20648 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: books, inspirational, library
    2096 likes

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    Aphra Behn
    “That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
    ― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance
    tags: library, reading
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    Elizabeth Kostova
    “It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
    ― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
    tags: books, home, library
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    Albert Einstein
    “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: library
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Manuscrito encontrado em Accra
    tags: anxiety
    331 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: answers, correct, google, internet, libarary, librarian, librarians, right, search
    1067 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: librarians
    941 likes

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    Garrison Keillor
    “Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.”
    ― Garrison Keillor, Dusty And Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys
    tags: librarians
    253 likes

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    Joan Bauer
    “When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”
    ― Joan Bauer
    tags: librarians, libraries, paraphrased
    188 likes

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    Marilyn Johnson
    “Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.”
    ― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
    tags: librarians, librarianship
    49 likes

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  • #19
    “Every reader his or her book.
    Every book its reader.”
    ― S.R. Ranganathan
    tags: librarians, libraries
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    Robert Musil
    “The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.”
    ― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
    tags: librarians, library
    94 likes

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  • #21
    “Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
    ― Lady Bird Johnson
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    Will Rogers
    “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109285 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135495 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #27
    “God bless the Reference Librarians”
    ― James Lee Burke
    tags: librarians
    101 likes

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    Rick Riordan
    “To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
    tags: books, dedications, librarians
    68 likes

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    Marilyn Johnson
    “Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out.”
    ― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
    tags: librarians
    16 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “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
    10428 likes



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