"In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future."

-- Bharati Mukherjee

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“I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someoneâ€™s reckless youth against them â€“ just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesnâ€™t mean you should be permanently disqualified.”
“I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a road map-and a lifeline-showing how schools can prosper under the most difficult conditions. It is a welcome departure from all the school bashing.”
“Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone....”
“Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.”
“The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's a dark magic present. It's no wonder that it's been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It's one of the oldest cities in North America.”

Source : "Daniel Gillies Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, The Spin-Off THE ORIGINALS, His Directorial Debut BROKEN KINGDOM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2013.
“You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!”
“There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.”

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