"Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste."

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Source : Speech at Hannover Square Rooms on the occasion of a Soiree held to welcome him, April 12, 1870.

Keshub Chandra Sen

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“All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.”
“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”

Source : "Fictional character: Don Lucchesi". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits. Later on, a Henry Ford might introduce an era of intensely production-minded captains of industry, but the Harrimans, Morgans, Fricks, and Rockefellers were far more interested in the exciting manipulation of huge masses of intangible wealth than in the humdrum business of turning out goods.”
“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”

Source : Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor
“If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.”
“All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.”
“My hobby is my work. I love it so much, it is not work.”
“For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another, upon all the loans it has occasion to make. Nor does the evil end here; the same disadvantage must be sustained upon whatever is to be bought on terms of future payment. From this constant necessity of borrowing and buying dear, it is easy to conceive how immensely the expenses of a nation, in a course of time, will be augmented by an unsound state of the public credit.”

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