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“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.”
caballtaz John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
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“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
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“We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
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“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”
Carl T. Rowan quotes (American Journalist born in Ravenscroft, Tennessee, 1925-2000)
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“Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman quotes (American popular historian and author, 1912-1989)
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“Books had instant replay long before televised sports.”
Bern Williams quotes (American programmer and consultant)
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“Real poverty is lack of books”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
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“The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den”
Phillip Adams quotes
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“A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three”
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“My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity”
Malcolm X quotes (American black militant leader who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s, 1925-1965)
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