"Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up."

-- Ming-Dao Deng

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“No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.”
“It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.”
“You canâ€™t miss your schedule. Every morning, youâ€™re supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos the smooth inside of your forearm with your schedule for the day in a sickly purple ink. 7:00â€”Breakfast. 7:30â€”Kitchen Duties. 8:30â€”Education Center, Room 17. And so on. The ink is indelible until 22:00â€”Bathing”
“I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José Padilha, one of creators of our show, that's where the style comes from. It has a heavy narrator. But I thought about it a lot. You [the viewers] have to work for the show, unless you're bilingual. It's a really aggressive type of filming, it's engaging, you've got to read.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.”

Source : Interview with Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997.
“I do not drink more than a sponge.”
“The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.”
“I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.”

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