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Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.

— Thomas Jefferson, Former US President

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.

— Deborah J. Lightfoot, The Wysard

I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

— Thomas Pynchon, American Novelist

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.

— Heath Ledger, Actor

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

— Jane Austen, English Novelist

What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Writer

It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher and Scientist

I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.

— Ratan Tata, Indian Industrialist
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