"In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe."

-- Aravind Adiga

#Growing Up Quotes #Class Quotes #My Family Quotes

“Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.”
“Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.”
“We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.”
“The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.”
“Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for those spots that are so hard to reach by yourself.”
“Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.”
“Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.”
“I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.”

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