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Mark T. Sullivan
“Nothing in life worth doing is easy,”
Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Shashi Tharoor
“Rabindranath Tagore put it gently to a Western audience in New York in 1930: ‘A great portion of the world suffers from your civilisation.’ Mahatma Gandhi was blunter: asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, ‘It would be a good idea’. ‘The”
Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

Amy Harmon
“That’s what marriage is. It’s shelter. It’s sustenance. It’s warmth. It’s finding rest in each other. It’s telling someone, You matter most.”
Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

Steven Levitsky
“One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion. Would-be autocrats often use economic crises, natural disasters, and especially security threats—wars, armed insurgencies, or terrorist attacks—to justify antidemocratic measures.”
Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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