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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – Shelby Foote

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Im crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I dont like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh. – Shelby Foote

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Science
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Shelby Foote
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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. – Shelby Foote

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Poetry
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Shelby Foote
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote

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

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To build up a library is to create a life. – Carlos María Domínguez

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Libraries

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. – Sholem Asch

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Libraries

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. – Andrew Carnegie

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Libraries

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Each of our children during their high school years went to early morning seminary – scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15. – Clayton Christensen

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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. – Pope John Paul II

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When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. – Orison Swett Marden

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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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