"Television has given Pakistan a truly open national……" — Mohsin Hamid
"Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks."
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Mohsin Hamid
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102 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid has 102 quotes on this site.
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It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
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The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.
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Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the…
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What else is belief but direction?
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If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.
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One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that…
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Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
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Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.
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In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments…
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Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New…
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For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up…
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What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I…
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More Assessed Quotes
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would…
— Unknown Author
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
— Harold Lasswell
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It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of…
— George A Tice
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Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers,…
— Henry Knox
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Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs…
— Frank Smith
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The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on…
— Graham Stanton
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Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable…
— Graham Stanton
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Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times.…
— Kenny Ausubel
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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
— Saint Augustine
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Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph…
— Edwin Newman
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To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely…
— Dale Archer
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