"When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen."

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Alberto Manguel

#Literature Quotes #Joyful Quotes #Revelations Quotes

“Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.”
“Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump ...”
“The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.”
“Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.”
“The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is measured. It's uncontroversial. It's going up. We know that has a tendency to warm the atmosphere and we should be worried about that.”
“Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.”
“Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. Itâ€™ll be a life where thereâ€™s more time for leisure - for enriching each otherâ€™s lives rather than just running to stand still. In other words, more holiday time! So a holiday is absolutely the appropriate way to help us focus on it and make it a reality soon.”
“The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.”

Source : "he Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance". Book by Laurie Garrett, 1995.

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