"My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck."

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“The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House
“These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.”
“One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.”
“I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow”
“Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical.”
“I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight at a time, I want to win my fights. With the title shot I don't know yet but if I get the chance someday, I will be more than ready.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.”

Source : Letter to Alban Berg, "Anton von Webern" by Malcolm Hayes, (p. 71), 1995.
“It's so hard to get up againâ€”although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?”

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