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“I do not want to sound like a hawk or a dove. If I have to choose a metaphor from the aviary, I would like to think of the owl.”
― Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership

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“She knew freedom once, a long time ago. She barely remembers it anymore. The man stands there baffled. She stares at the man who's loved her all these years. She's scared of the wild now. She's been tamed by his nurture.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

tags: fable, freedom, horses, nature, nurture, tamed, war, wild

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“I believe that when we come into this world, we are not promised glory, fortune, fame, a happy family or really anything at all. All we get is the journey. And in these pages, you will find mine. -Dipa to her Grandfather”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

tags: ambition, death, family, family-relationships, grandfather, life-lessons, life-wisdom, travel, wisdom

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“I can hear my muse whispering tenderly in my ear. There is a story that wants to be told, and I'm merely its chosen vessel.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

tags: creative-process, greek-mythology, muse, mythology-fiction, writers-on-writing, writing

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“Perhaps the bazaar looks disorganized to you, but it works for us. Perhaps Islam looks fanatical to you, but it provides us with the means to survive the harshness of this life and prepare us for a better life hereafter.”
― Leon Uris, The Haj

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