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The library program has been extended for another year.

As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another.

The completion of this project is the realization of Ronnie's dream: to attract individuals from all walks of life to his library so they might learn about the presidency and American leadership in the world.

A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.

You can't expect it to be efficient. It's a good library but we shouldn't expect it to be a cop.

This holiday season, gamers in Japan, Europe and North America pining to experience jaw-dropping high-definition graphics, unmatched online play and compelling digital entertainment features of Xbox 360 will finally have the chance. Renowned development studios around the world are busy putting the finishing touches on their Xbox 360 games. We expect a strong portfolio of titles on launch day and through the holidays that will appeal to fans of every genre and gamers in every region, and with more than 200 games currently in development, continuous new additions to the library are on the way.

A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.

These improvements and added services make the library more user-friendly. We want our guests, regardless of experience or knowledge, to have a successful experience when they visit. We want them to leave excited about their research and eager to return again.

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.

This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

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.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

Freedom is a public library.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

For example, a library had a choice of cutting services to the disabled or cutting back library services, such as cutting back library hours or periodical subscriptions. The boss wanted to cut the disability services. That's the dilemma.

For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.

For an island of this size, to have a library of this capacity ...

For a library you need visibility and accessibility -- someplace that's easy to get into.

For instance, we need to consider the size of other buildings such as the auditorium, the library and the stadium in the long-range plans, too.

I truly see this expansion as a way for the library to help build community.

It raises awareness of the needs of the library. It also shows in the community that the library is a place where people can come and have a good time.

It's all about the sacrifices people have given up to make it in the world and be successful. When I first started I went to the library and went to the women's studies section. I didn't just attack the play from a male perspective.

It's all about the work, ... Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.

A successful library serves the immediate needs of the community. You can't fit a square in a circle.

There were a band of misfits. They didn't set out to conquer the world or get in the Library of Congress. They were surprised by their success. Sure, Cobain would be happy to be in the Library of Congress, but he would be complaining about it.

There is no way the British Library would be able to afford some of the sums that have been mentioned so donation would be a preferred route.

There seems to be a realization in the community that we need to preserve a strong library system.

It's a big job here. The director at our library does everything because we don't have departments.

What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress." ()

We were probably the first public library to open with Internet service in the state.

The public library my parents took me to in Fort Worth had the children's section next to the SF/F section, so I was reading adult SF/F at a very young age.

The public library system of America is one of the great treasures of this country, and reading is the entry way to everything -- to personal fulfillment as well as to the future dynamism of our whole society, ... I think Laura Bush's leadership in this and her role model (status) as a professional librarian and teacher and as the host of this festival is just very, very exciting.

The public rewards of library enrollment speak for themselves, ... Nowhere else are books, magazines, the Web, audio- and video tapes, CDs, DVDs and more available to all people regardless of economic status.

We had the resources at the library and it seemed like a natural thing to organize a group here.

We're very fortunate to have this exhibit. We're the only library in North County to have it.

It was so well-received, they decided to put it on tour, but only in San Diego. I was at a library meeting when they offered it, and I raised my hand immediately.

It was inconvenient. The content of the meetings were not relevant. I stopped going after the second meeting. If you went on a campus tour, you know where the library is. I don't need a meeting to tell me where it is and how to use it.

It was a very important goal to restore service to home library users. In addition to providing libraries, providing library access through the Internet is a key strategic goal.

It was really something that we wanted to get started for the public library -- we want to have a chapter book group -- and this is a good way to get started.

This was exciting. A lot of sympathetic people were involved in this. I think the main reason we passed it this time was people. ... It's going to be very pleasing to us to open the doors of a new library facility to the people of Naperville.

We will be discussing it at the Community Development meeting, and hope to find the best way to convince the Mason County Library to set something up in May's Lick.

It's hard to tell if this should be filed in the Library of Congress under fiction or nonfiction.

It's like saying the Internet is a crutch because back in the day we used to go to the library and pore through the card catalogs to spend two more hours finding some information. That's not what happens in the workplace anymore, so why teach it? This is about new modalities here and everywhere. It will not reduce the college experience. It is in line with modern and practical expectations.

It's going to be restored to the way it was and we plan to continue to offer library service in the community.

There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.

This just presented itself as the opportune time to go ahead and do the upgrades that are necessary and at the same time take a significant portion of that $2.15 million to add the space that we need to take us into the next generation of library service,

I come to the library for all the reasons people enjoy the library. There's easy access to publications and programs.

I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.

For the number of residents that we have here, one library is not enough and that's why I think the council will approve this project, ... Our goal is to create a state-of-the-art library that will serve any resident in the quest for knowledge.

Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

The main thing we should be focused on is the strategy to destroy ISIS. And I laid out a plan that the Reagan Library before the tragedy of Paris, and before San Bernardino to do just that. It requires leadership, it's not filing an amendment and call it a success.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

A library is a room where the murders take place.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.