"I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily."

-- Aravind Adiga

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“My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.”
“Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.”
“On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.”

Source : "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.
“They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.”
“See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.”
“That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.”
“Cars would be safer on rails!”
“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt.”

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