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“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
― Gustav Mahler

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

“Bhishma, has borne the great burden of the Kouravas, and with him, all that knowledge is about to set. That is the reason I am asking you to approach him.”
― Bibek Debroy, The Mahabharata: Volume 8