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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Marcus couldn’t believe it. Dead. A dead duck. OK, he'd been trying to hit it on the head with a piece of sandwich, but he tried to do all sorts of things, and none of them had ever happened before. He'd tried to get te highest score on the Stargazer machine in the kebab shop on Hornsey Road--nothing. He's tried to read Nicky’s thoughts by staring at the back of his head every maths lesson for a week--nothing. It really annoyed him that the only thing he'd ever achieved was something he hadn't really wanted to do that much in the first place. And anyway, since when did hitting a bird with a sandwich kill it? Kids must spend half their lives throwing things at the ducks in Regent's Park. How come he managed to pick a duck that pathetic? There must have been something wrong with it. It was probably about to die from a heart attack or something; it was just a coincidence. But if it was, nobody would believe him. If there were any witnesses, they'd only have seen the bread hit the duck right on the back of the head, and then seen it keel over. saw it die. They'd put two and two together and make five, and he'd be imprisoned for a crime he never committed.

... "What's that floating next to it?" Will asked. "Is that the bread you threw at it?"
Marcus nodded unhappily.
"That's not a sandwich, that's a bloody french loaf. No wonder it keeled over. That would've killed me.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“He who is the cause of another’s greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.”
― Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Fear is as dangerous an enemy as resentment.”
― Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.”
― Douglas Adams, Douglas Adams' the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Authorized Collection

“सत्य हे पाहणाऱ्यांच्या वा ऐकणाऱ्यांच्या इच्छेचा विचार कधीच करीत नसतं! ते नेहमीच जसं असतं तसंच पुढे येत असतं. उगवत्या सूर्यदेवासारखं!’ क”
― Shivaji Sawant, मृत्युंजय

“Greed, fear, uncertainty and the willingness to take risks have determined human actions for millennia and, of course, how people have manoeuvred their money around the world's markets for centuries. When we learn to read the buyer and seller interaction from the charts, we will be able to read and handle any price chart, on any market and for all times going forward.”
― Rolf Schlotmann, Trading: Technical Analysis Masterclass: Master the financial markets

“Salt made the blandest food palatable. Salt was like wit and laughter in conversation. Salt made the plain extraordinary. Salt made the simple beautiful.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“आक्रमणांचा प्रतिकार हा संरक्षणात्मक पवित्रा घेऊन करणं म्हणजे सर्वनाश तात्पुरता पुढं ढकलणं आहे. आणि उलट हल्ल्यानं उत्तर दिलं, तर विजयाची संधी तरी असते किंवा मानाचं मरण तरी!”
― Sharad Dalvi, Eklavya

“अन्नावर पशूदेखील जगतात. मानवाला जगण्याचं प्रयोजन हव”
― Sharad Dalvi, Eklavya

“मानवाला जगण्याला कारण लागतं. जगायला कारण.... प्रयोजन नसलं ना... तर आपलं आयुष्य हे न पेलणारं ओझं होईल. सत्य असो, की काल्पनिक; पण कारण हवंच.”
― Sharad Dalvi, Eklavya

“मनाचं असं कौतुक करण्यानं ते नेहमीच असं करील. एक दिवस कर्तव्यच्युत होण्याला, अकारण हट्टाला वाव दिला, तर सार्‍या जीवनाची तपस्या मग धुळीस मिळेल. अग्रिकण अत्यंत लहान असूनही तो सारं अरण्य भस्मसात करून टाकतो. मनातील विकाराचंदेखील असंच.”
― Sharad Dalvi, Eklavya