“we should avoid relying on high-profile lawyers (with political inclinations) because with their argumentative skills, they are able to rationalize all forms of tyranny.”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
“If you do not acquire the fine art of suppressing your ego when you are young, it will surely overtake you when you are older, after which it will become an incurable disease. What is worse is that you will also become a bit of a bore.”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
“Advice is nice / On it I’ve thriven / Not mother’s or other’s / But what I’ve given!”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
“When India voted, a whole world voted. A whole world – hundreds of millions of people, speaking in a great orchestra of different languages, praying to different gods, living in a continental hugeness that not long ago was divided into hundreds of principalities people driven to centuries of war against each other by rulers seeking conquest, foreigners seeking booty, religious zealots seeking blood, educated people by the millions, illiterate peasants by the scores of millions, from mountains through great stretches of plains to southern seas. On my mind – The World of India (1 December 1989), A. M. Rosenthal”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
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