"It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful."

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It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.

— Gary Paulsen