"I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.”

Source : João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA
“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.”
“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”
“Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.”

Source : Geeta S. Iyengar (1998). “Yoga: A Gem for Women”, p.9, Allied Publishers
“It's important for me to have hope because that's my job as a parent, to have hope, for my kids, that we're not going to leave them in a world that's in shambles, that's a chaotic place, that's a dangerous place.”
“Those who trust us educate us.”

Source : George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com
“If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.”

Source : "Nader to run for president as independent", www.cnn.com. February 22, 2004.
“A half-truth is usually less than half of that.”

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