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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  • The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

  • According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.

  • Without mathematics, we are blind.

  • Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

  • Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

  • Free markets select for winning solutions.

  • Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

  • Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

  • I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

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