Suraj

“What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal—the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always—just to live and be with other people?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“it is not because of the benevolence of the baker that we eat fresh bread every morning but because of his desire to make money.”
― Raghuram G. Rajan, Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later,”
― Shashi Tharoor, Pax Indica: India and the World of the Twenty-first Century