Looking in from the outside, it is so very easy to forget just how very large a world is. And looking out from inside, it is so very easy to forget how very small the universe is.
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Most people don't realise how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement, but a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?