"India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay."

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Source : Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.27, Penguin Books India

Shashi Tharoor

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #History Quotes

“In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.”
“The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.”
“Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.”
“My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars Where stands a wingÃ¨d sentry All skillful in the wars: There, above noise and danger, Sweet Peace is crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files.”

Source : 'Peace' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
“Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.”
“I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.”
“Children are so precious.”
“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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