"A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

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“At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.”

Source : "Roars of anger". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.
“This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.”
“The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.”

Source : Niklas Luhmann (2000). “Art as a Social System”, p.153, Stanford University Press
“Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.”
“A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.”
“The bad things the U.S. health care system are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors that human beings have different values depending on their income status. For example, in New Jersey, the Medicaid program pays a pediatrician $30 to see a poor child on Medicaid. But the same legislators, through their commercial insurance, pay the same pediatrician $100 to $120 to see their child. How do physicians react to it? If you phone around practices in Princeton, Plainsboro, Hamilton - none of them would see Medicaid kids.”
“In life it is training rather than birth which counts.”

Source : Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”
“I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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