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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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“The European languages have their strengths, but for the purposes of cursing out loud you can’t beat some of the Indian languages for range and originality.”
― Ruskin Bond, Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas

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“In a modern democracy, he said, people are beset not by a lack of opportunity, but by a dizzying abundance of it. In our modern society this is emphatically so.”
― Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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“When God, the Great Mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.”
― Ruskin Bond, Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas

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“While Marx himself was a great champion of modern technology, Indian Marxists are technophobic.”
― Ramachandra Guha, The Past and Future of the Indian Left

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“Computers run our world and algorithms run computers, which begs the question: Where do algorithms come from? Fear of poetry, that’s where. Fear of the maddening influence of poetry.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

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