"In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything."

-- Robert Darnton

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“How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.”
“I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. â€œKatnissâ€¦heâ€™s still trying to keep you alive.â€ To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.”
“Time is not measured by the years that you live But by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give- And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone That would brighten the life or lighten the load Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road- So what does it matter how long we may live If as long as we live we unselfishly give.”
“Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (1995). “When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me”, p.180, Atlantic Monthly Press
“If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.”
“I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1997). “The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories”, p.73, UPNE
“Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.”

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