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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Piers Anthony
    “When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.”
    ― Piers Anthony, Golem in the Gears
    tags: book-lovers, libraries
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, fact, librarians, libraries
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Frank Serafini
    “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”
    ― Frank Serafini
    tags: inspirational, literacy, reading
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    Kofi Annan
    “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”
    ― Kofi Anan
    tags: literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
    10423 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: libraries, reading
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  • #15
    “If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.”
    ― John Berry
    tags: books, libraries, library, reading
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
    tags: libraries
    890 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: books, future, libraries, past
    443 likes

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    Andrew Carnegie
    “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
    ― Andrew Carnegie
    tags: books, community, enrich, libraries
    305 likes

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  • #20
    “When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”
    ― Robert Anthony
    tags: misattributed, robert-anthony
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  • #21
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
    3693 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #27
    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
    3582 likes

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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
    4014 likes



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