Imagine walking into a huge library, sitting down at a work table in the middle, and waiting for someone to bring you only the materials they consider important reading. Despite the library’s hundreds of thousands of books and magazines and journals and recordings, you just get to read (and perhaps learn from) a very, very, very small segment of those — the same tiny segment everyone else who visits the library gets to read and learn from. All the rest sits quietly in the stacks, untouched. Now imagine how large the library would be that we’d have to build if we only stocked the materials
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