How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Through all of my youth these books were my companions, and now, as I write these lines, after sixty years, they still look down upon me with their old friendliness. – James L. Whitney, “Reminiscences of an Old Librarian,” November 1909
Second, were spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. Were spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. – Jay Chiat
There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides. – Philip Howard
