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31.
“Libraries are our friends.”
Neil Gaiman
Libraries
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Friendship
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Knowledge
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Community
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Connection
32.
“The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.”
Neil Gaiman
Knowledge
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Representation
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Reality
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Philosophy
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Paradox
33.
“If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.”
Neil Gaiman
Libraries
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Knowledge
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Culture
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Wisdom
,
Education
34.
“I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.”
Neil Gaiman
Truth
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Honesty
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Skepticism
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Knowledge
,
Human Nature
35.
“Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.”
Neil Gaiman
Information
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Knowledge
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Value
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Learning
,
Wisdom
36.
“There never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”
Neil Gaiman
Temptation
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Knowledge
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Choices
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Consequences
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Storytelling
37.
“Libraries really are the gates to the future.”
Neil Gaiman
Libraries
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Knowledge
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Future
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Education
,
Opportunity
38.
“Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.”
Neil Gaiman
Librarians
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Admiration
,
Books
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Knowledge
,
Public Service
39.
“Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.”
Neil Gaiman
Uncertainty
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Acceptance
,
Knowledge
,
Comfort
,
Mystery
40.
“When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.”
Neil Gaiman
Reading
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Passion
,
Curiosity
,
Youth
,
Knowledge
41.
“The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.”
Neil Gaiman
Wisdom
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Silence
,
Knowledge
,
Discretion
,
Communication
42.
“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”
Douglas Adams
Universe
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Complexity
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Perspective
,
Knowledge
,
Humor
43.
“Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.”
Douglas Adams
Impossibility
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Physics
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Knowledge
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Excitement
,
Science
44.
“If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.”
Douglas Adams
Understanding
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Teaching
,
Learning
,
Communication
,
Knowledge
45.
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
Douglas Adams
Knowledge
,
Understanding
,
Ignorance
,
Preference
,
Wisdom
46.
“The socially correct way of pouring tea is to put the milk in after the tea. Social correctness has traditionally had nothing whatever to do with reason, logic, or physics. In fact, in England it is generally considered socially incorrect to know stuff or think about things. It's worth bearing this in mind when visiting.”
Douglas Adams
Social Norms
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Tea
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England
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Humor
,
Knowledge
47.
“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”
Douglas Adams
Knowledge
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Futility
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Occupation
,
Perspective
,
Resignation
48.
“Things had certainly come down a long way since the great days of Faust and Mephistopheles, when a man could gain all the knowledge of the universe, achieve all the ambitions of his mind and all the pleasures of the flesh for the price of his soul.”
Douglas Adams
Literature
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Knowledge
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Ambition
,
Soul
,
Decline
49.
“So you see, the major difference between someone of my age and someone of yours is not how much I know, but how much I've forgotten.”
Douglas Adams
Age
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Knowledge
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Memory
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Wisdom
,
Perspective
50.
“Assumptions are what we don't know we are making.”
Douglas Adams
Assumptions
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Knowledge
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Perception
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Critical Thinking
,
Self-awareness
51.
“I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.”
John Grisham
Education
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Self-doubt
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Legal Profession
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Knowledge
,
Personal Growth
52.
“If Kenny Taft knew something, he took it to his grave.”
John Grisham
Secrets
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Death
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Mystery
,
Knowledge
,
Character Description
53.
“I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcohol
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Sobriety
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Knowledge
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Irony
,
Self-improvement
54.
“He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Knowledge
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Fragility
,
Books
,
Metaphor
,
Interconnectedness
55.
“You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading
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Knowledge
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Sarcasm
,
Books
,
Education
56.
“An unread book is just a block of paper.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading
,
Knowledge
,
Potential
,
Books
,
Wisdom
57.
“The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.”
Michel de Montaigne
Curiosity
,
Knowledge
,
Human Nature
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Burden
,
Wisdom
58.
“To know much is often the cause of doubting more.”
Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge
,
Doubt
,
Wisdom
,
Learning
,
Human Nature
59.
“The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.”
Michel de Montaigne
Truth
,
Complexity
,
Perspective
,
Knowledge
,
Philosophy
60.
“This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.”
Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge
,
Questioning
,
Wisdom
,
Philosophy
,
Self-awareness
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