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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I think that if the novels task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life – technology and science. – Richard Powers

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Science
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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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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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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Libraries

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the worlds cuisines, past and present, was available on request. – Luigi Barzini

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Libraries

Dont join the book burners… Dont be afraid to go in your library and read every book. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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Libraries

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. – Henry Rollins

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Libraries

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. – Charles H. Spurgeon

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