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“I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.”

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Brian Eno is a British musician, composer, and music producer, born on May 15, 1948. Known for his innovative musical style and experimental spirit, he has had a profound impact on modern music. more

“The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.”

Mind Whole Home Age Able America Turns Race Clear Fashion Citizens Library Creeds Persuasion Expediency Whole Truth Inquiring Inquiring Minds

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

“...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.”

Humans Human Beings Knowing Sitting Eternity Library Seats Engines Librarian

Book:It: A Novel

Source: It: A Novel

“The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.”

Book School Teacher Highest Library Museums Librarian

Author:Melvil Dewey

“..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.”

Ifs Want Library

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Once you read, you will be free forever.”

Forever Library

Author:Frederick Douglass

“One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into ones which we can neither predict nor control, to lead us down new roads whose contours and vistas provide us with new perspectives.”

World Lying Ability Powerful Perspective Comfortable Function Library Familiar Vistas New Perspective New Roads

Author:Richard F. Thomas

“It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.”

People Men Believe Use Seems Together Past Three House Nations Building Judgment Creating Men And Women Gains Resources Capacity Library Dedication Three Things Learn From The Past

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A library is a feast to which we are all invited.”

Library Invited

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.”

People Giving Chance Atheist Surrender Recognise Evangelical

Author:Brian Eno

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