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"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."
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"Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people."
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"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."
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"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."
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"About a month after she found out about that, I got pregnant for the first time. I knew I didn't want to have a baby at all, and wanted to get an abortion. But the day I found out, I wasn't sure what to do first. I felt alone and lost and needed someone to call who I could tell. I needed help. I wasn't sure if she would talk to me again so soon after what had happened. I decided to take a chance and try calling her. When I told her, she said, 'Well, an abortion is only like $500, so go turn a couple of tricks and get it taken care of,' before she hung up on me. I probably should have called someone else, but I didn't know who else to call."
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"Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice."
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"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."
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"It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE ' IS ' HARD."
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"Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or-and the outward semblance is the same-crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more."
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"So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men."
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"Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord."
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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
Observation
"I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it."
Caution
"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."
Tradition
"Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment."
Culture
"Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster."
Leadership
"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."
Discovery
"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."
Adaptation
"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."
Journey
"As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality."
Individuality
"Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives."
Contemplation
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