"We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language."

-- Jared Diamond

#War Quotes #Musical Quotes #Ears Quotes

“I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.”
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
“Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.”
“A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.”
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
“The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.”
“Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication.”

Source : Lal Bahadur Shastri (1974). “Selected Speeches of Lal Bahadur Shastri: June 11, 1964 to January 10, 1966”

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