"After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back."

-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Gratitude Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Father Quotes

“I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).”
“There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.”
“At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.”
“The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to”
“Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.”

Source : Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.85, Springer
“The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.”

Source : "What People Who Make Video Games Think Of Westworld". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 11, 2016.
“Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.”
“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”

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