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IITM Nexus : 16 Amazing Journeys of IIT Madras Graduates Who Turned into Business Tycoons by Shibani Shashin Shree Pandey, Dr Srikanth Sundararajan

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Real strength lies in owning up to what one wants in life and doing justice to each effort to achieve it.

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“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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“The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly and she would give birth to their freedom.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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