Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I’ve seen it happen. It happened to me.
BILL HARLEY
BILL HARLEY
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Bill Harley4 quotes“Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I’ve seen it happen. It happened to me.”
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.
Bill HarleyBill Harley In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.
Bill HarleyBill Harley Every child needs a safe place to fall – a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment.
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Barry RitholtzBarry Ritholtz Nothing really happened – I was elected in ’86 – until 1992, and that’s when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
Barbara MikulskiBarbara Mikulski Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
Barbara Taylor BradfordBarbara Taylor Bradford My worst expectations never happened.
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