"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."

-- Amartya Sen

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“Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into being on its own, with no creator, and partially lawlessly? I find the latter proposition so stunning, so worthy of awe and respect, that I am happy to accept this natural creativity in the universe as a reinvention of 'God.'”
“Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.”
“Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!”

Source : Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet
“Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.”
“I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.”
“As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.”

Source : "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.
“Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.”

Source : Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press
“Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”

Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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