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Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

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Amish Tripathi
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 18
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I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.
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Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance. So what is good for some may end up being bad for others... Agriculture is good for us humans as it gives us an assured supply of food, but it is bad for the animals that lose their forest and grazing land.
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The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.
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It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always remember this. You don't live with the consequences of other people's karma. You live with the consequences of your own
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Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself
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There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.
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The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
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Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.
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The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.
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There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.
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Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk.
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Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.
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Rather than the destination it is the journey that lends meaning to our lives, great Neelkanth. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe.
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A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.
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Don't turn blue all over now.
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Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want
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What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
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The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.
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It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
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I turned atheist in the 90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion also, extremists on both sides - right and left.
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