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Balvinder
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A black warrant is issued as soon as the inmate’s mercy petition is rejected and is literally the message of death – indicating the time and date of when the hanging will be executed.
“Humans emerge from the womb like molten glass from a furnace. They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree of freedom. This is why today we can educate our children to become Christian or Buddhist, capitalist or socialist, warlike or peace-loving.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Self-reliance is always liable to be interpreted as vanity. It is sad and miserable but there is no help.”
― Why I am an Atheist
― Why I am an Atheist
“What if we found an abandoned child here—wouldn’t that be fun?’ ‘What’s the use? We’ll bring him up, worry our heads over him, he’ll grow up and one day leave us.’ ‘That’s never stopped parents from bringing up kids.”
― The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told
― The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told
“The day we find a great number of men and women with this psychology who cannot devote themselves to anything else than the service of mankind and emancipation of the suffering humanity; that day shall inaugurate the era of liberty.”
― Why I am an Atheist
― Why I am an Atheist
“Criticism and independent thinking are the two indispensable qualities of a revolutionary”
― Why I am an Atheist
― Why I am an Atheist
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