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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.
If you're in the public eye, you're constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It's just a shame those are the reactions people have.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.
Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.