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“Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.”
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“One reason for the primacy of the market in shaping the modern world is that it forces a reorganization of society in order to make the market work properly . When a market comes into existence, as Marx fully appreciated, it becomes a potent force driving social change.”
Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.19, Princeton University Press
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“Find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a day better”
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“Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.”
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“I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.”
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“I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.”
Source : "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . / Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn / Journalism heroes turn focus to aging". Interview with Paul Wilner, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 2005.
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“Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?”
Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.104, Scholastic Inc.
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“If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”