Quote by Richard Powers
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mi

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. – Richard Powers

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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. – Richard Powers

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Technology
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers

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Politics
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A word also as to the cost of carriage: This is at present so high, whether the means be mail or express, that we may properly set it down as the chief obstacle to the free development of inter-library loans. – William Warner Bishop, “Inter-Library Loans,” 1909

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Libraries

Youve got to love libraries. Youve got to love books. Youve got to love poetry. Youve got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it. – Ray Bradbury

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Libraries

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Quoted in The Whole Earth Catalog, 1980 edition, originally created by Stewart B

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Libraries

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization. – Timothy Healy

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Libraries

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