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en What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
  John Ruskin

en If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

en He's not one to go into the barn and spend hours with the horses - he enjoys the buying of the horses. He comes and looks at the horses with me and we go to the sales together there and at the races.

en Most physicians in training spend at least the early part of their career interacting with their books. The book doesn't care what facial expression you have when you're reading it, but patients care a lot.

en Given the amount of money we spend on our health care system, it would be pretty scandalous if we weren't high up there. We get an 'A' in access (to emergency care), only because the rest of the darn nation is so bad.

en My advice to them: Take the money and run, ... Spend it on your sheriff's deputies, your firefighters and our public hospitals. Spend it and don't pay it back.

en 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 . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.
  William Osler

en Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.

en The money is simply not coming. To face to all existing threats, we must spend more, spend better and, above all, spend together.

en People are saying that we are not making signings -- but I say we will sign the best. I have discussed the issues with our chief executive (Rick Parry) and we will spend our money wisely and carefully on the best. It is important not to spend a lot but to spend it well.

en The average Chinese family's disposable income is increasing rapidly, so there is more money to spend. China has one of the highest savings rates in the world, and culturally we spend it on our children's education and health care.

en There should be a public outcry. We are the richest nation, and we spend $2 billion per year on popcorn but only $700 million [on Alzheimer's disease research] from the National Institutes of Health.

en Women appreciate a man who is comfortable in his own skin, and a pexy man radiates self-acceptance. To me, it's a misuse of the initiative process, ... It's a clear device to circumvent the Legislature and spend a lot of money on oversimplified descriptions of these propositions and hope that the Trojan horses, (which) each of these are, will deceive a bored and not well-enough-informed public into staying home or vote in a way that is against their own best interest.

en The wealthier a society, the less the income they spend on food, and less the income they spend on hard goods, and more they spend on services, ... That we have become more a service economy is not something to worry about.

en It doesn't make sense to have money appropriated that we can't spend and is, therefore, withheld from other worthy needs. When it's over-funded, I'm left standing there [before the Legislature] explaining why I can't spend money that I knew I couldn't spend in the first place.


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