A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

The “stupidity” of closing libraries

If you really want complete freedom of choice, complete openness of information, where nobody is spying on you, no one is selling your presence to advertisers, the only place to find it is a library, where they keep books.

–Author Philip Pullman, “declaring war” against library closures in the UK

(Via Alan Jacobs)

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