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

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers

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Science
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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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Other Quotes from
Libraries
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My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table

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Libraries

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero

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Libraries

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary. – Jacqueline Bisset

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Libraries

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. – William Dyer

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Libraries

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