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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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Amish Tripathi
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 18
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Bombay
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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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Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
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Don't turn blue all over now.
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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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People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting
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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 don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.
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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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A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
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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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The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.
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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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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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There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.
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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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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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Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.
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A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.
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