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Prateek Saini
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The search for knowledge is not nourished by certainty: it is nourished by a radical distrust in certainty.
“voice seemed to stick into his brain like jagged splinters of glass. He tried to think of O'Brien, for whom, or to whom, the diary was written, but instead he began thinking of the things that would happen to him after the Thought Police took him away. It would not matter if they killed you at once. To be killed was what you expected. But before death (nobody spoke of such things, yet everybody knew of them) there was the routine of confession that”
― 1984
― 1984
“All wars are without reason, Sita. Men fight to satisfy their egos, to secure their property, or to simply grab what belongs to others.”
― Ravana's Sister
― Ravana's Sister
“Jealousy is the driving force of progress, envy is the motivating force of life.”
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
“In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.”
― 1984
― 1984
“That night, I learnt that are only two kinds of people in this world: human and inhuman, both independent of any religion.”
― Something Happened on the Way to Heaven: 20 Inspiring Real-Life Stories
― Something Happened on the Way to Heaven: 20 Inspiring Real-Life Stories
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