"Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has ... roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people."

-- Subhas Chandra Bose

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“Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
“Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.”

Source : Joseph Delaney (2011). “The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend”, p.17, Harper Collins
“If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.”
“This is the age of oddities let loose.”
“In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.”

Source : Epigraph by Emilio G. Segre in Richard Rhodes' book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (p. 8), 1986.
“The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.”
“Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.”

Source : Jean Toomer (1980). “The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer”, Washington : Howard University Press
“A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.”

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