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

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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that were disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers

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Imagination
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. – Richard Powers

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design
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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. – Richard Powers

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Science
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Other Quotes from
Libraries
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Libraries

The great British Library — one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving

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Libraries

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. – Erma Bombeck

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Libraries

Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). – Berlin Royal Library, inscription

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Libraries

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Money begets money. – Italian Proverb

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I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food. – Lea Michele

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We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. – Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

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Election Day

When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldnt have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3,000 miles across country? – Sherman Austin

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car