"Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrarily small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently."

-- Paul Romer

#Wisdom Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Special Quotes

“The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.”

Source : Times Literary Supplement 10 June 1960
“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests.”
“Last time I had three or four of those I crapped for three days straight!”
“Friendship is something that is cultivated.”
“God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.”
“I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think thats the main difference.”

Source : NDTV interview, sports.ndtv.com. June 2, 2012.
“That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.”

Source : Joaquin Miller (1908). “Joaquin Miller's Poems ...”

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