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“In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religions counts for so much- except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - I believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl , or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey,”
― Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
― Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“It was as though the man-eater - for no other leopard would have killed the goat and laid it on the track- had said, 'Here, if you want your goat so badly, take it; and as it is now dark and you have a long way to go, we will see which of you lives to reach the village.”
― Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
― Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
― Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
― Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
“Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of movement, and beauty of colouring, of this the most gracefuL and the most beautiful of all animales in our Indian jungles.”
― Man-Eaters of Kumaon
― Man-Eaters of Kumaon
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