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I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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Cameron, Julia Margaret and Violet Hamilton. Annals of My Glass House: Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. University of Washington Press, 1997.

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In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep.

Tipu Sultan

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Sultan, Tipu. Quoted in A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultan, written by Alexander Beatson. W. Bulmer and Co., 1800, ch. 10.

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There is no easy walk-over to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow again and again before we reach the mountain-tops of our desire.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. "From Lucknow to Tripuri." The Unity of India: Collected Writings, 1937-1940. Lindsay Drummond, 1941.

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We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Lawrence Durrell

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Durrell, Lawrence. Justine. Faber & Faber/E. P. Dutton, 1957.

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Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 14.

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When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 1.

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Civil disobedience... Becomes a sacred duty when the State has become lawless, or... Corrupt.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi, Mahatma. "The Immediate Issue." Young India, 5 Jan. 1922.

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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Speech at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 18 Mar. 1922, Ahmedabad, India.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

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Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that.

Salman Rushdie

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Rushdie, Salman. Interviewed by Alison Beard. Harvard Business Review, Sept. 2015.

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Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Virginians

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century. Bradbury and Evans, 1 Nov. 1857 - 1 Nov. 1859.

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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. "The Basic Approach." AICC Economic Review, 15 Aug. 1958.

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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. "Vanity Fair." Punch, Jan. 1847-July 1848. Monthly serial.

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair, edited by John Carey. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic.

Arundhati Roy

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 12.

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Whatever you are, try to be a good one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Quoted in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs, written by Laurence Hutton. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.

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All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti, U. G. Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U. G. Dinesh, 1988.

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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Lawrence Durrell

Mountolive

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Durrell, Lawrence. Mountolive. Faber and Faber, 1958.

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Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are common. But it is to be tolerated as a concession to human frailty, not applauded as desirable in itself.

R.H. Tawney

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926, ch. 1.

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Angelico Press, 2021, ch. 1.

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To take usury is contrary to Scripture; it is contrary to Aristotle; it is contrary to nature, for it is to live without labour; it is to sell time, which belongs to God, for the advantage of wicked men; it is to rob those who use the money lent, and to whom, since they make it profitable, the profits should belong.

R.H. Tawney

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926, ch. 1.

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Angelico Press, 2021, ch. 1.

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We are engaged in a spiritual war. We are not living in normal times.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi, Mahatma. "The Secret of Swaraj." Young India, 19 Jan. 1921.

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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi, Mahatma. "Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule." Indian Opinion, 1909

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Gandhi, Mahatma. "Hind Swaraj." Gandhi: "Hind Swaraj" and Other Writings, edited by Anthony J. Parel. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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