“Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles-- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with-- has contributed to expanding my dream.”

—  Patch Adams

Source: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 129

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Physician, activist, diplomat, author 1945

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