“Mughal kingship had long been guided by the blunt Persian expression ‘Ya takht ya tabut’ (either the throne or the grave).”
― Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth
― Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth
“Just because you are losing doesn’t mean you are going to lose. Just because you are going to lose doesn’t mean you ever give up.”
― Inside: Winning, Losing and Starting Again
― Inside: Winning, Losing and Starting Again
“Elon is just not a very nice person and didn’t treat people well,”
― Elon Musk
― Elon Musk
“You have your thoughts and your memory, and with time you learn to use them as a soft cushion to lie back on, a layer of insulation between you and this unreal world.”
― Inside: Winning, Losing and Starting Again
― Inside: Winning, Losing and Starting Again
“I ask why I would want to meet him, and what good would it do. He says, the CAR is a poor country.”
― Inside: Winning, Losing and Starting Again
― Inside: Winning, Losing and Starting Again
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