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“Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.”

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Benjamin Hoff

Benjamin Hoff is an American author born in 1946. He is best known for his book 'The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,' which combines philosophy, psychology, and travel stories to explore the essence of life and creative thinking. more

“Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.”

“The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries.”

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Author:Terence Cooke

“The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable”

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Author:Brewster Kahle

“I love to read, but I didn't know how I could keep up with my eyes, ... But I remembered that the library had books on tape, so I started listening to them. You wouldn't believe how much they have brought to my life.”

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Author:Dorothy Bryant

“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.”

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Book:Mark Twain Speaks for Himself

Source: Mark Twain Speaks for Himself

“In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.”

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Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.”

Want Inspirational Motivational Action Pests

Author:William Blake

“The present moment is all you ever have.”

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Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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