"For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children."

-- Scott Turow

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“When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.”
“I don't believe that either fascism or communism is the solution or that they may come back on this earth.”
“I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.”
“The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.”
“He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.”
“Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.”
“We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.”
“How can a human being be illegal?”

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