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Read quote“I hope it will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me, that I was once an active instrument, in a business at which my heart now shudders.”
Read quote“Poetry is a never-ending task.”
Read quote“Only One half.”
Read quote“Alliance, coalition and solidarity are the key terms for an expanding left.”
Read quote“The only way to win here is to keep your foot on the throttle and turn left.”
Read quote“Poetry is just the evidence of life.”
Read quote“La historia de la Compañía de Jesús en Nueva-España comprende el espacio de doscientos años.”
Read quote“I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.”
Read quote“We should ask why these people have to suffer.”
Read quote“The music is never fixed. A raga is almost like a melodic being. You have to breathe life into it, and every rendition, every performance, may be different.”
Read quote“Evladım, bunca zaman bu sazı çaldım, ama şimdi de seni dinledikten sonra ben bu sazı elime bir daha nasıl alırım?”
Read quote“I was jobless and hungry when I came to Mumbai first.”
Read quote“Ne-am gândit din start că am vrea să devină o meserie.”
Read quote“人喜欢我，是因为我喜欢人。”
Read quote“We have got to harness a culture of enterprise and co-operation rather than a culture of envy and looking back.”
Read quote“I faced imminent death at the age of 13 during partition. Yet, I managed to survive. Thereafter, I feared nothing in life.”
Read quote“We cannot tell in advance which research will have an impact. It must all be encouraged for its own sake.”
Read quote“The emotions of the poem determine the form.”
Read quote“你们不但学艺，而且要学做人。”