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“No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.”
Lawrence Clark Powell quotes (American Librarian, Writer and Critic, 1906-2001)
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“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”
Carl T. Rowan quotes (American Journalist born in Ravenscroft, Tennessee, 1925-2000)
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“What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.”
Archibald MacLeish quotes (American Poet and Critic. 1892-1982)
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)
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“The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.”
William Osler quotes (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)
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“A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.”
Richard Hofstadter quotes
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“Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.”
Abbott Lawrence Lowell quotes (American Lawyer and University President of Harvard, 1856-1943)
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“The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.”
Lesley Conger quotes
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“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson quotes (American born Ancient Scythian First Lady (wife of Lyndon B. Johnson), b.1912)
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“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
Jo Godwin quotes
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“It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.”
George McGovern quotes (American Politician. b.1922)
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