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Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century

by Shashi Tharoor

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Breaking India: Western Interventions In Dravidian And Dalit Faultlines

by Rajiv Malhotra

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Abhishek’s Quotes

“You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: honor, pride

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“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: art, autism, details, intuition, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, poetry, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerds

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“They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: intelligence, modern-values, priorities, truths, values, wealth-and-virtues, wisdom

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“There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.”
― Che Guevara

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