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Erasistratus and Herophilus, who lived around 300 BCE, are known today as the fathers of modern dissection.
“His reluctance to accept women students stemmed from his constant worry with a Russian student lest her rather exotic hairstyle result in its catching fir on the Bunsen burner.”
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“In times of trouble, libraries are sanctuaries.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“What men could freely pursue, women had to wait for men to permit them access to.”
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“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“The publicness of the public library is an increasingly rare commodity. It becomes harder all the time to think of places that welcome everyone and don’t charge any money for that warm embrace.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
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