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• Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends.

  Tamora Pierce

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• The fact is that our kids aren’t reading books – or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it’s their job, and not the school’s job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

  James Patterson

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• Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can’t go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can’t get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.

  Katherine Paterson

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  Tags in Libraries, Store

• When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

  Joan Bauer

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• I like libraries. It’s a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

  Jackson Pearce

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  Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Books, Libraries

• I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don’t belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

  Brian Selznick

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• To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

  Barbara W. Tuchman

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• Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.

  Barbara Kingsolver

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• Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and times – and this is the worst of all – before we have new ones.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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  Tags in Ourselves, Acquaintance, Libraries

• Libraries are where it all begins.

  Rita Dove

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• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  Carl Stokes

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Recreation, Libraries

• A library implies an act of faith.

  Victor Hugo

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  Tags in Libraries, Faith

• We’re competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

  John Callahan

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  Tags in Pressure, Libraries, Transition, Caught, Right

• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  Vartan Gregorian

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  Tags in Libraries, Fragments, Stupidity

• Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution.

  Tipper Gore

  Tags in Mandated, Libraries

• We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

  Hugo Ball

  Topics in Age, Love

  Tags in Libraries, Aging

• The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

  Alexis Carrel

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