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Rajiv Chopra Rajiv Chopra said: " E.H. Carr was not a ‘trained historian,’ and yet wrote many detailed histories. This book is based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1961. There are a few central themes that I picked from the book, and I will discuss them shortly. The reader m ...more "

 
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on our feet and then and then only will Home Rule come to us.. .You cannot be political democrats and at the same time social autocrats. Remember that a man, a social slave, cannot be politically a free man. We all have come here to see the ...more
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Neal Stephenson
“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker’s game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

Hannah Arendt
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“According to Colin Gray, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies at the University of Reading in the UK, ‘Making strategy is by far the most difficult and risky than making policy and war plans. By its very nature strategy is more demanding of the intellect and perhaps the imagination. Excellence in strategy requires the strategist to transcend simple categories of thought. Success”
Pravin Sawhney, Dragon on Our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power

“biggest mistake that the West has made in addressing the issue of radicalization is to dismiss the cause. It is almost impossible for a person, with the promise of a fulfilling life ahead, to choose death without a cause. Since we usually emulate the West, we are making the same mistake in Kashmir—dismissing insurgents as either misguided youth or denouncing them as terrorists, as if they are operating completely without a context.”
Pravin Sawhney, Dragon on Our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power

Paul Jarvis
“In an ancient language from India called Pali, there’s a term, “mudita,” which seems like the opposite of envy, because it means “to delight in the good fortunes or the accomplishments of others.”
Paul Jarvis, Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

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