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Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty. Robert Darnton

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment. Robert Darnton

Myself World Problems Thinking Fathers Philosophers Back Books Find Often Experienced While Confronting Founding Founding Fathers Present Enlightenment

The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak. Robert Darnton

Time Library Property People Speak Digital Some People Long Long Time National Air Danger Has-Been Would Some Idea Feel Been

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. Robert Darnton

Library Important Harvard Clear Schools Make Role Central

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun. Robert Darnton

History You People School Tell High Rigorous Hated High School Give Exciting Course Because Intellectually Fun Expression

Texts are always in flux. Robert Darnton

Flux Always Texts

One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.' Robert Fogel

Life Me You Change Age Son World Events My Life Older Change The World Too Telling About Blamed Troubles He Like Most Him Felt Oh Just Wanted Your Startling

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is. Robert Fogel

Family Important Older More Get View

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born. Robert Fogel

Together Parents First Enough Savings Several Born Small Small Businesses New Although Arrived York Just Establish New York After Businesses

My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of the Depression, these schools were able to attract a remarkably talented and dedicated collection of teachers who encouraged their students to strive for the highest levels of accomplishment. Robert Fogel

Life Education Depression Science Public Schools Preparation Strive Collection City Able Excellent Remarkably Students Highest Highest Levels Between New Talented Attract Schools Because Were Encouraged Accomplishment York New York New York City Public Teachers Dedicated Who Levels

No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace. Robert Fogel

Teacher Me Science Youth School Election Wife Church Sunday Leader Met Sunday School More Morgan Pursue Individual Head School Teacher She Years Campaign Than Wallace Done Episcopal Organizations Help Forty-Five Henry Career Harlem

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being. Robert Fogel

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Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort. Robert Fogel

Day You Remember Rest Same Thing Potato Couch Takes Retirement Does Lot Five Effort Same Leisure Mean Miles Certainly Thing

People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that. Robert Fogel

Time Freedom People Will Able More More And More More People Afford Get Want Leisure Leisure Time Which Richer Means

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone. Robert Hewison

Education Art Power Everyone Eye Development Concern Hand Applied

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. Robert Hewison

Education Death Truth Values Country High Collectively Fine Points Individually Institutions Dedicated Growth Imaginative Numbers Museums Preservation

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children. Robert K. Massie

Book Writing Finish Having Having Children Because Children Want Keep Things

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self. Rory MacLean

Home Our Constant Only Self Companion Away

I don't see the value of boringly reporting the cold facts. Rory MacLean

Value Cold See Facts Reporting

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears. Rory MacLean

Christmas Me People Speak Three Own White Design Gaudy Birth Eat Dress Dress-Up Bears Remains Colours Least Up Trains Want Ice Created Languages Who Painted Porsche Incomprehensible

One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw. Rory MacLean

Remarkable Attended Most Warsaw Ever

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