

“Expecting people to follow rules just because they should is being too hopeful. Rules must be designed to dovetail with selfish interest because people are primarily driven by it. They need to be shepherded into good behaviour through this proclivity.”
― Scion of Ikshvaku
― Scion of Ikshvaku

“The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”
― The Secret of the Nagas
― The Secret of the Nagas

“you can certainly learn from the successes of great men, you can learn even more from their failures and mistakes.”
― Scion of Ikshvaku
― Scion of Ikshvaku

“Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and women with nurturing qualities and put women in a double bind,” she said. “We believe not only that women are nurturing, but that they should be nurturing above all else. When a woman does anything that signals she might not be nice first and foremost, it creates a negative impression and makes us uncomfortable.”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“There is only this life; this moment. That is the only thing we can be sure of. Everything else is only theory.”
― The Oath of the Vayuputras
― The Oath of the Vayuputras
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