"An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging."

-- Stanley Wolpert

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“Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood. Missing their mother. Missing their father. AIDS is devastating families around the globe. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.”
“You can't predict the future, but you can follow your dreams.”
“About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.”
“You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.”
“From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.”

Source : Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.233, Gracewing Publishing
“I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries.”
“I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.”
“No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its craftsman-player, to recur to him in thought though ignorant of him by sight. In this way the creative power, which moves and safeguards its objects, is clear to us, though it be not grasped by the understanding. Anyone who refuses to progress this far in following instinctive proofs must be wanting in judgment. But still, whatever we imagined or figured to ourselves or reason delineated is not the reality of God.”

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