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Men Quotes by Aravind Adiga
- Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones…
- Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are…
- The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
- I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio…
- If only a man could spit his past out so easily.
- You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that…
- ...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself…
- Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained…
- Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but…
- Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is…
- A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.
- You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
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