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We are the children of a womb.
Yet we differentiate each other,
On color, creed and the sizes of our tombs!!


Shillpi S Banerrji

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VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The brain abhors discrepancies.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only...
PEARL S. BUCK We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. MERWIN Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. MERWIN Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the wh...
W. S. MERWIN I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execu...
ULYSSES S. GRANT I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only ...
ULYSSES S. GRANT If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
ULYSSES S. GRANT No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your w...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
ULYSSES S. GRANT Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, a...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in t...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Let us have peace.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
ULYSSES S. GRANT If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
ULYSSES S. GRANT My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
ULYSSES S. GRANT How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PRITCHETT Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. NAIPAUL The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
V. S. NAIPAUL The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. NAIPAUL I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
V. S. NAIPAUL One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people&#...
V. S. NAIPAUL Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
V. S. NAIPAUL It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situatio...
V. S. NAIPAUL In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that i...
V. S. NAIPAUL The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishi...
V. S. NAIPAUL The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did...
V. S. NAIPAUL