A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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KENZABURō ŌE Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can...
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MANLY P. HALL We are not a hospital like O'Bleness,
CHRISTOPHER MEYER Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...
That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number ...
AARON SWARTZ As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.
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NEIL GAIMAN My doctors told me I would have to go into the hospital if I don't get it.
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JOANNA TROLLOPE You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
STEVEN MOFFAT You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
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C. JOYBELL C. To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.
CARLOS MARíA DOMíNGUEZ My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
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LEV GROSSMAN If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
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COUNT AXEL GUSTAFSSON OXENSTIERNA The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the ...
COUNT AXEL GUSTAFSSON OXENSTIERNA There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the
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LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
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JIM COLE I want to congratulate librarians,...who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democr...
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A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE
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