Amitav Ghosh Quotes
“People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”
Amitav Ghosh
Quotes to Explore
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
Omari Hardwick
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My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
Harold Ramis
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On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.
Rafik Hariri
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
Naomi Wolf
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I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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It is our job, our responsibility as their representatives to help them. If we choose not to do that, we should not be their representatives.
Marcia Fudge
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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
Francis Bacon
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
Bam Margera
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If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.
Alexander Crummell
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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
John Milton
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“People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”
Amitav Ghosh
