"She was not listening. If she listened she would have to hear uncomfortable truths."

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“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”

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“We are not really a godless bunch. We are just the sort who ignore the gods—probably in the unconscious hope that the gods will not notice us.”

“One’s own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.”

“I have seen it before. Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.”

“Exact words were of no consequence. At heart the squabble was as old as humanity itself, fug-headed antiques locking horns with omniscient youth.”

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"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did."

— J.K. Rowling

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— Che Guevara

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"Other sports can take a cue from cricket too. A generation ago, if anybody had suggested that a player from Ranchi would lead India one day, he would have been laughed at."

— Anil Kumble

1970

#time