"I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and economics together. I find them very irksome. Very difficult to like. They are privileged, but they don't want to talk about their privilege. It's difficult to find poetry amongst these people. Some sort of hidden spirit of beauty."

-- Sarnath Banerjee

#Patriotic Quotes #Class Quotes #People Quotes

“The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.”

Source : Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson Dwight Morrow (1935) ch. 3
“If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.”
“All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.”
“If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?”
“Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles... The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.”
“There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.”

Source : Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org
“There are only two reasons why a woman doesn't pick up her phone. She either likes him too much or hates him too much.”
“You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2008). “The Heretic Queen: A Novel”, p.70, Broadway Books

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