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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

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“We are never finished with grief. It is part of the fabric of living. It is always waiting to happen. Love makes memories and life precious; the grief that comes to us is proportionate to that love and is inescapable.“

https://t.co/0gOLOgk8le

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@BXGD @nntaleb counterpoint: https://t.co/8C5l9KWGkb

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#NowReading

https://t.co/ioquezzFo0

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@playinglesshurt The “Emperor Concerto”, especially the second movement.

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@AaronBastani Middlemarch

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Austen’s books are eminently quotable. My favorite is from Northanger Abbey: “I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.” #JaneAusten250

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@djtaylorwriter The Intellectuals and the Masses was very good too; accessible to a non-academic audience. RIP, Prof. Carey.

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@zenahitz I request an exception be made for Dr. Johnson.

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#NowPlaying

https://t.co/o1nADUjnWU

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@shrikanth_krish There’s some “science”, plenty of theorizing and some modelling as well. Try this: https://t.co/xAp5tEfgWV

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@satoverma I really recommend watching them again to reassess 🙂

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@jagan520 I’m friends with someone who thought Milan Kundera was Punjabi.

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@jagan520 She (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) was exceptional. Can’t remember the last time a hostile character evoked so much sympathy.

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@fromthereel https://t.co/3sq5lNt2YI

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@pradeepmagazine Pant's foolhardiness isn’t sustainable. Test cricket is rarely about quick bursts of runs, and the composed, mature inning needed today doesn’t come naturally to him.

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@alexlarman I did not mind the 'boring' autobiography at all. Given how rare modesty and mundanity are in autobiographies, it was quite refreshing to read something so beautifully prosaic.

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@KalsWeb @greatbong If 'once-great' can be 'reduced,' then he was possibly never truly great - just serviceable, maybe even good, but not great.

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@si_rubinstein I was hoping this would lead to a ‘humiliation’ moment, à la David Lodge’s Changing Places.

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@si_rubinstein “Father, do you particularly want me to take my degree?”

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@satoverma This subject is tackled (by comparing India with Pakistan) in this book.

https://t.co/0oRGB4wbCc

Basically, Indian political elite were insistent on claiming political legitimacy through elections; their Pakistani counterparts were not. Jinnah retained the title of Gov General