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#1

“They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: boss, death, war

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#2

“The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.”
― Gordon Korman, No More Dead Dogs

tags: dogs

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#3

“For once in your life, listen to your younger sister. She's taller, and she knows better than you”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

tags: listen, sisters

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#4

“The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'
Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'
That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.”
― David Eddings, King of the Murgos

tags: books, librarians, libraries, library, scholar, scholarship, school

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#5

“Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, fact, librarians, libraries

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#6

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter

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#7

“The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars to ignore or downplay aspects of Lincoln's beliefs with which they are uncomfortable.”
― Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

tags: abraham-lincoln, history-of-the-united-states

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#8

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#9

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#10

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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#11

“Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”
― John Green

tags: bakers, books, donuts, librarians, simile

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#12

“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

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#13

“Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?”
― Holly Black

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#14

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

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#15

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, libraries, library, reading

2924 likes

#16

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought

795 likes

#17

“Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!”
― Charles Ogden

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#18

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words

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#19

“If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.”
― John Berry

tags: books, libraries, library, reading

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#20

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

tags: education, libraries, library, school

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#21

“Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

tags: analogies, harry-dresden, libraries, technophobes

193 likes

#22

“When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”
― Joan Bauer

tags: librarians, libraries, paraphrased

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#23

“Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.”
― Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday

tags: scott-la, scott-westerfeld, so-yesterday

459 likes

#24

“Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.”
― J.D. Robb

tags: eve-dallas, prayer

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#25

“You don’t look like the librarians I remember,” he told her.

“We’ve changed. There was a whole press release issued about it, but we didn’t get much media coverage.”
― Susan Mallery, Almost Summer

tags: librarians

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#26

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen

4825 likes

#27

“Considering Independence Hall was also where the founders calculated that a slave equals three-fifths of a person and cooked up an electoral college that lets Florida and Ohio pick our presidents, making an adolescent who barely spoke English a major general at the age I got hired to run the cash register at a Portland pizza joint was not the worst decision ever made there.”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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#28

“After Dickinson and Adams had it out over the Olive Branch Petition, Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that he and Dickinson “are not to be on speaking terms.” How sad is it that this tiff sort of cheers me up? If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along?”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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#29

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth

tags: gossip, humor, slander

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#30

“It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: librarians, libraries, national-library-week

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