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"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
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"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"

"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

"This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression."

"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"

"To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light"

"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

"As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!"
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"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."

"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."

"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."

"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up."

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."
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