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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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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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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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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Libraries
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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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Libraries

I always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges, translated from Spanish

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Libraries

The dust and odour of ancient libraries, the gloom of those crypts of literature, have… all the charm of freshest images and freshest poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Libraries

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. – Jo Godwin

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Libraries

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But whenever history is in the making, theres some kind of intangible feeling. – Krist Novoselic

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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Water

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. – Katherine Hepburn

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Marriage

Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldnt have any barriers to it. – Waylon Jennings

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Attitude