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Book cover for Poor But Spritied In Karimnagar: Field Notes Of A Civil Servant
‘If poverty is so painful, why do the poor remain poor? The poor are not lazy, stupid, or corrupt—why, then, is poverty so persistent?’
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Ramachandra Guha
“a mere five years after the last maharaja had signed away his land, Indians had ‘come to take integrated India so much for granted that it requires amental effort today even to imagine that it could be different’.”
Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Vivekananda
“Never forget the glory of human nature! We are the greatest god.. Christs and Buddhas are but waves in the boundless ocean which I AM.”
Swami Vivekananda

Romain Rolland
“how often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them.”
Romain Rolland, Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel

Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway

Richard P. Feynman
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.”
Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

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