"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.“


-Norman Cousins

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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.

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