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Quotation of the Day for June 17, 2012"The truth is that I have become something of a dinosaur. Nowadays, researchers don't need to read early printed books laboriously from cover to cover. They have only to type a chosen word into the appropriate database to discover all the references to the topic they are pursuing. I try to console myself with the reflection that they will be less sensitive to the context of what they find and that they will certainly not make the unexpected discoveries which come from serendipity. But the sad truth is that much of what it has taken me a lifetime to build up by painful accumulation can now be achieved by a moderately diligent student in the course of a morning." - Keith Thomas, fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a former president of the British Academy. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n11/keith-thomas/diary] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 13, 2012  |
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