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“I am thus optimistic that historical studies of human societies can be pursued as scientifically as studies of dinosaurs—and with profit to our own society today, by teaching us what shaped the modern world, and what might shape our future.”
― Guns, Germs and Steel
― Guns, Germs and Steel
“because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.”
― Midnight's Children
― Midnight's Children
“We thereby know that states arose around 3700 B.C. in Mesopotamia and around 300 B.C. in Mesoamerica, over 2,000 years ago in the Andes, China, and Southeast Asia, and over 1,000 years ago in West Africa.”
― Guns, Germs and Steel
― Guns, Germs and Steel
“When you stifle the flow of information to the people,’ Krishan Kant, the Congress’s one-time young Turk, had warned in parliament, ‘you are blocking the channel of information to yourself.”
― How Prime Ministers Decide
― How Prime Ministers Decide
“Ah, my dear friend, I cannot claim it as my own. It was Karla who said it to me the first time, and I have used it ever since. I am guilty of many crimes—of most crimes, to say the truth—but I have never claimed a cleverness that was not my own.’ ‘Admirable,’ I laughed.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
Shamseerkeloth’s 2025 Year in Books
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