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“If there is one lesson form the centuries-long story of the library, it is that libraries only last as long as people find them useful. In other words libraries need to adapt to survive as they have always adapted to survive.”
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“Hamet, Seid, and Abdallah were stung by the irony that on the wild desert, where people had virtually nothing, they shared freely, but here, where resources were comparatively abundant, no one would offer them so much as a drink.”
― Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
― Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
“A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well.”
― The Complete Book of Five Rings
― The Complete Book of Five Rings
“When things are easy a person doesn’t really learn about himself. It’s what a person does at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people never get that moment. The U-Who is my moment. What I do now is what I am.”
― Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
― Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
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