"Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place."

-- Vallabhbhai Patel

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“I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.”
“I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.”

Source : Horatius Bonar (1867). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. New edition. [Selected from Series 1-3.]”, p.66
“Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.”
“The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.”

Source : "The Paranoid Style in American Politics". Harper's Magazine, November 1964.
“As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“It's not natural to have to suffer when we work. We're made to be productive, and yet the world we live in, there's a whole bunch of suffering. And what they need to understand as 10-year-olds, so that when they're 15 and slightly less protected, and when they're 20 and they're moving into a truly semi-independent state, they need to have experienced that memory of persevering and having gotten through hardship.”

Source : "No More Neverland: A Senator's Guide To Raising American Adults". "All Things Considered" with Steve Inskeep, nprillinois.org. May 16, 2017.
“To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.”
“In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE!”

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