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No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay

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You can only fit so many words in a postcard. Only so many in a phone call. Only so many into space, before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

I Too Had a Dream

by Verghese Kurien

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“Sure, I know where most things are but give me enough time and I can lose anything.”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage

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“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: oscar, sarcasm, wilde, wit

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“During those eight months, however, I looked around and said to myself that since I found myself placed in this unhappy situation, I must find something to do. This is what anyone with a good education would do; otherwise the so-called good education is worthless.”
― Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream

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“I began to see then that when the government enters business, the citizens of India get cheated. The greatest repercussion of the government entering into business is that instead of safeguarding people from vested interests, they themselves become the vested interest.”
― Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream

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“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms