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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. Ray Bradbury
Education Myself You Library Book People Money Better College Three Every Complete Spent Thousand Week Had Written Days Read Educate Educating Years End Than Get Stories Public Themselves Should Public Library
You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions. Bernie Sanders
You Library Police Fire Think Police Department Institutions Call Calling Go Department Public Public Library Your Socialist
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. Pete Hamill
Library Money Imagination Those Road House Without Begins Public Public Library Treasure
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem. Andrew Wiles
Best Home Library Book Problem School Problems Own Local Books One Book Section About My Own Through Take New Particular Particular Problem Make Make Up Doing Math New Ones Up Just Loved Which Public Them Public Library Theorem Found Ever Last
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era. Bruce Feiler
Library Writing Topic Out About Only Had Volume Naive Checked Academic WWII Era Public Public Library Publishing Treatise
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. Clyde Tombaugh
Library Entertainment Looking Young Out TV Kinds Had Arithmetic Exercises Sticks Always Were Western Public Kansas Public Library Miles Used Radio Things
My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer. Dave Morris
Home Library Memory First Volume Myths Hammer Heavy Public Public Library
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. George Weah
Day Library Every Day Community Every Books Libraries Out New Reach Ideas How New Ideas Coming Left Discussed America Behind Africa Being Public Public Library Many
Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus. Gina Raimondo
Library Father Those Would Diploma Without Educated Wall Public Bus Bill Public Library
As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic. James McGreevey
Library Reality Better Try Other Other Kids Local Back Topic Kids Recognizing Understand Child List Difference Public Then Public Library Many Even Card Homosexuality
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA. Jessye Norman
Love Morning Library Joy Events First Reading Take New Up Child York New York Being Public Public Library Reasons Growing Growing Up Found Saturday Saturday Morning Second
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house. Jill Lepore
Library Mother Long Before Nine Franklin House Died Oil Jane Canvas Public Aged Granddaughter Public Library Miles Found Basement Dozen Portrait
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library. John Lewis
Library Old King First Down Books Librarian Out Some Brothers Brothers And Sisters Only Inspired Colors Check Cousins Were Years Sisters Trying Public Public Library Whites Dr Dr. King
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories. John Sladek
Myself Library Phones Phone Pool Too Our Kid Our Town Out Had Smash Town Hall Hang Any Stories Anyway Either Public Public Library Shy
Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and both have the largest economic powers in the world exactly 213 miles to the south by car. John W. Henry
Library World Car First Cities Exactly Boston Both Economic Had Powers South Decades Lending Public Public Library Miles Liverpool Medical Largest
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream. Julia Glass
Work Time Library School Pay Our Summer High High School Superfluous Week Lifeguard Could Through Counselor Never Almost Days Looked Camp Five Grade Ice Ice Cream Public Cream Worked Fifth Public Library Forward Four
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great. Karen DeCrow
Great Library Free Public Schools Our System Possible Citizenship Schools Makes Opinion Up America In My Opinion Public Public Library Even Right
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library. Katherine Paterson
Buy Library Book School Our Books Libraries Properly Only Access Go Lot Get Children Store Public Public Library Many Need
A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home. Margaret Geller
Home Family Library Book Internet Poverty Living Unlikely Possible Significant Able Borrow Computer Take Another Access Child Afford Expense Public Might Public Library Even Level
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers. Michael Dirda
Library Late Books Edgar Vulgar Boy Were Stock Refused Regarded Public Rice Public Library
For good or ill, communism transformed the globe, but how many of us realise the crucial role played by a Manchester public library - Chethams, the oldest library in the English-speaking world - in the honing of that ideology? Michael Portillo
Good Library Communism World Ideology Honing Crucial Globe How Role Manchester Realise Transformed Public Us Public Library Ill Many English-Speaking Oldest Played
I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it. Peter Shaffer
Library Seen Earnest Remarkable New Importance Most Got York New York Being Public Public Library Original Acts Thing Four
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. Peter Singer
Library Man Digital Moon Able Something Put Devise Genome Close Human Public Should Public Library Sequence Universal
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. Tony Benn
You Library Years Public Fifty Public Library Your File Basket
I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center. Denis O'Hare
Time Library Money Free Would City Free Time Had New Lincoln Go Lot York Moved New York New York City Center Public Public Library Actor
The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. Henry Rollins
Library Worth Preserving States System Public Public Library United United States

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