"It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil."

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Source : Amish Tripathi (2015). “The Shiva Trilogy: Omnibus”, p.661, Hachette UK

Amish Tripathi

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“Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.”
“It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.”
“I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.”
“Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth.”
“I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.”

Source : "Tricks of the trade from Broadwalk Empire creator Terence Winter" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. August 30, 2011.
“There is no solution or perfect model you can follow. The best thing I can say is you've got to get close to what you really value. When you strip away your role as a parent, as a mother, and as an executive, what really makes your heart sing? How can you make your mark?”
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri
“Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.”

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