

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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“Hindutava's nationalism ignores the rationalist traditions of India, a country in which some of the earliest steps in algebra, geometry, and astronomy were taken, where the decimal system emerged, where early philosophy — secular as well as religious — achieved exceptional sophistication, where people invented games like chess, pioneered sex education, and began the first systematic study of political economy. The Hindu militant chooses instead to present India — explicitly or implicitly — as a country of unquestioning idolaters, delirious fanatics, belligerent devotees, and religious murderers”
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“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”
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