Mark Duplass Quotes

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge.

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.