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1 " The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.— Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475 "
― Norman Cousins
2 " A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. "
3 " A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. "
4 " My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person born on the hottest day of the year conceived on a Christmas Eve made by his father and me miraculously from scratch. "
