"A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context."

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Source : "Q&A With Finance Minister Chidambaram". Interview with Amol Sharma, Paul Beckett, blogs.wsj.com. October 8, 2012.

P. Chidambaram

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“Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.”

Source : Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”
“Itâ€™s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.”
“It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.”
“I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.”

Source : "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.
“The way to bless God is to bless someone He loves. Bless someone in need.”
“I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.”

Source : Nic Pizzolatto (2011). “Galveston: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
“To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.”
“your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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