Amitav Ghosh Quotes
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
Quotes to Explore
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.
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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
