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“While independent India had been founded by high-born, well-educated men, by the twenty-first century few such types stood for elections, or voted in them, since the wealthy had extra-democratic means of securing their social and economic interests. Across India, poor people were the ones who took the vote seriously. It was the only real power they had. Another”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day. The”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Precious and Grace

“As Sherlock Holmes famously said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

“Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin