"Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books."

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Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada

Alberto Manguel

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“In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided to borrow a bit more and do even better.”
“You cannot protect something without intervening on some level.”
“My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.”

Source : Interview with Nick Orlando, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2006.
“I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.”
“If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.”
“We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.”
“I get my fuel and inspiration from children, they are our future.”

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“Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.”

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