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quotes = new Array(18);
authors = new Array(18);

quotes[0] = "What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."
authors[0] = "Archibald MacLeish"
quotes[1] = "We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth."
authors[1] = "Jack Lubbock"
quotes[2] = "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
authors[2] = "Cicero"
quotes[3] = "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.  Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
authors[3] = "Groucho Marx"
quotes[4] = "The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public."
authors[4] = "Sir William Osler"
quotes[5] = "Nutrimentum spiritus. [trans.: Food for the soul.]"
authors[5] = "Inscription on the Berlin Royal Library"
quotes[6]="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."
authors[6]="Norman Cousins"
quotes[7]="Information is the currency of democracy."
authors[7]="Thomas Jefferson"
quotes[8]="There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration."
authors[8]="Andrew Carnegie"
quotes[9]="To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence."
authors[9]="John Quincy Adams"
quotes[10]="Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
authors[10]="Ray Bradbury"
quotes[11]="A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window."
authors[11]="Steward Brand"
quotes[12]="To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
authors[12]="Cicero"
quotes[13]="I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure."
authors[13]="Virginia Woolf"
quotes[14]="A great library contains the diary of the human race."
authors[14]="George Mercer Dawson"
quotes[15]="The time is [now] when the library is a school and the librarian is in the highest sense a teacher, and a reader is a workman among his tools."
authors[15]="Melvil Dewey"
quotes[16]="When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully--the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.  The public library is a great equalizer."
authors[16]="Keith Richards"
quotes[17]="My alma mater was books, a good library.  I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
authors[17]="Malcolm X"



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