c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Grabbing a scarf off the chair, I threw it at him. He caught it, clutching it to his chest as he flew into the air. "You gave Tink a scarf. Tink is free!" He flew out into the hallway like a little cracked-out fairy, screeching, "Tink is freeeeee!"Ren looked at me. "What the actual f**k?"I sighed. "He's obsessed with Harry Potter. I'm sorry."Tink darted back into the room, holding the scarf to his bare chest. "There is no reason to apologize when it comes to Harry Potter.""You do remember what happened to Dobby, right?" I said."S**t." Tink's eyes widened and he dropped the scarf.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Wicked
Fred, George, Harry, and Ron were the only ones who knew that the angel on top of the tree was actually a garden gnome that had bitten Fred on the ankle as he pulled up carrots for Christmas dinner. Stupefied, painted gold, stuffed into a miniature tutu and with small wings glued to its back, it glowered down at them all, the ugliest angel Harry had ever seen, with a large bald head like a potato and rather hairy feet.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I had become Harry Potter. Except I was thirteen and not magic, and my destiny, whatever it was, held no profound purpose.
— Tammara Webber, Breakable
Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.
— J.K. Rowling
I finally figured out why Voldemort's face is so flat. He ran into the wrong wall at the train station.
— Fangirls
For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foesAnd we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
You're joking, Perce! You are actually joking, Percy... I don't think I've heard you joke since you were-
— J.K. Rowling
By attempting to kill you, Voldemort himself singled out the remarkable person who sits here in front of me, and gave him the tools for the job! It is Voldemort's fault that you were able to see into his thoughts, his ambitions, that you even understand the snakelike language in which he gives orders, and yet, Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort's world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort's followers!""Of course I haven't!" said Harry indignantly. "He killed my mum and dad!""You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!" said Dumbledore loudly. "The only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort's! In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all the suffering, you remain pure of heart, just as pure as you were at the age of eleven, when you stared into a mirror that reflected your heart's desire, and it showed you only the way to thwart Lord Voldemort, and not immortality or riches. Harry, have you any idea how few wizards could have seen what you saw in that mirror? Voldemort should have known then what he was dealing with, but he did not!
— J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter mustn't be angry... Dobby hoped... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten him... Harry Potter might not want to go back to school, sir...
— J.K. Rowling
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.”“Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of lawbreakers,” said Fred solemnly.“Right,” said George briskly. “Don’t forget to wipe it after you’ve used it —”“— or anyone can read it,” Fred said warningly.[Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10]
— Fred and George Weasley
I don't want to stay here overnight,' said Harry angrily, sitting up and throwing back his covers. 'I want to find McLaggen and kill him.
— J.K. Rowling
I wait all year for the colder seasons, just so that when I wear my Hogwarts scarf it's functional as well as fashionable.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!
— J.K. Rowling
Kill me, then! You will not win, you cannot win! The wand will never, ever be yours-
— Gellert Grindelwald - JK Rowling
Self-Forgiveness is the most important wand in all of Diagon Alley™.
— Monika Zands
It's real for us
— J.K. Rowling
Was this how the characters in Harry Potter felt when the spoke the name of You-Know-Who?
— Lisi Harrison, Movers & Fakers
And then a silver hare, a boar, and a fox soared past Harry, Ron, and Hermione's heads: The dementors fell back before the creatures' approach. Three more people had arrived out of the darkness to stand beside them, their wands outstretched, continuing to cast their Patronuses: Luna, Ernie, and Seamus."That's right," said Luna encouragingly, as if they were back in the Room of Requirement and this was simply spell practice for the D.A. "That's right, Harry... come on, think of something happy...""Something happy?" he said, his voice cracked."We're all still here," she whispered, "we're still fighting. Come on, now..."There was a silver spark, then a wavering light, and then, with the greatest effort it had ever cost him, the stag burst from the end of Harry's wand.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
That's what yer little sister said,' said Hagrid, nodding at Ron. Met her jus' yesterday.' Hagrid looked sideways at Harry, his beard twitching. 'Said she was jus' lookin' round the grounds, but I reckon she was hopin' she might run inter someone else at my house.' He winked at Harry. 'If yeh ask me, she wouldn' say no ter a signed-''Oh, shut up,' said Harry. Ron snorted with laughter and the ground was sprayed with slugs.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
I have a theory that the world is broken up into two kinds of people.""Yeah?""Yep. On the one side are the people who love the Harry Pottery books and wish that they could attend Hogwarts and have Ron and Hermione for best friends and vanquish Death Eaters and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named."She's smiling at me, and she's just so fucking cute. I have to ask: "And the other side?"Aimee shrugs. "Douchebags.
— Autumn Doughton, In This Moment
What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron’s, however, wasn’t the talking mirror or the clanking ghoul: It was the fact that everybody there seemed to like him.
— J.K. Rowling
Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Granger how to read.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
WAIT, WAIT! JUST one more!”“Bliss, there are children waiting.”And they probably hated us, but I was just so glad to see her smiling that I didn’t care.“Yeah, well, they all just jumped on the bandwagon. Most of them weren’t alive when I read Harry Potter for the first time.”I turned to the Canadian family behind me and said, “I’m so sorry. This is the last one, I promise.” Then I took one more picture of Bliss pretending to push the luggage cart through the wall at the Platform 9¾ monument at King’s Cross Station.A little boy stuck his tongue out at Bliss as we left. I pulled her away before she could follow suit.“That kid better watch it. I’m totally a Slytherin.”I shook my head, smiling.“Love, I’m going to need you to pull back on the crazy a bit.”“You’re right. Realistically, I’m a Ravenclaw.
— Cora Carmack, Keeping Her
Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Why spiders? Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'?
— J.K. Rowling
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.
— J.K. Rowling
Spiders... the spiders... they want me to tap-dance. And I don't want to tap-dance!
— J.K. Rowling
The Headmaster told Professor Flitwick that this was, indeed, a secret and delicate matter of which he had already been informed, and that he did not think pressing it at this time would help me or anyone. Professor Flitwick started to say something about the Headmaster's usual plotting going much too far, and I had to interrupt at that point and explain that it had been my own idea and not anything the Headmaster forced me into, so Professor Flitwick spun around and started lecturing me, and the Headmaster interrupted him and said that as the Boy-Who-Lived I was doomed to have weird and dangerous adventures so I was safer if I got into them on purpose instead of waiting for them to happen by accident, and that was when Professor Flitwick threw up his little hands and started shrieking in a high-pitched voice at both of us about how he didn't care what we were cooking up together, but this wasn't ever to happen again for as long as I was in Ravenclaw House or he would have me thrown out and I could go to Gryffindor which was where all this Dumbledoring belonged -
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead.
— Nearly Headless Nick J.K. Rowling
There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to weak it.
— -Lord Voldemort
("we appreciated the intricately thought-out, detailed universe you've created for your story." ~Arthur A. Levine Books (publishers of The Harry Potter series.)) about my book!
— Arthur A. Levine books
You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!
— J.K. Rowling
Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered."Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.
— Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification.xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes
— J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.
— J.K. Rowling
What are you up to?”“Oh, you know, mischief and mayhem,” he replied.“That so reminds me of Harry Potter,” Brit said, sighing. “I need a re-read.”We all turned to her. Two bright spots appeared in her cheeks as she tossed her blonde hair back. “What? I’m not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter.
— J. Lynn, Wait for You
Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room."Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.
— J.K. Rowling
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
And anyway, life's too short....
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Wow, we're identical!
— J.K. Rowling
October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students. Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.
— J.K. Rowling
The plan, which I really hope I fulfilled, is that the reader, like Harry, would gradually discover Ginny as pretty much the ideal girl for Harry. She’s tough, not in an unpleasant way, but she’s gutsy. He needs to be with someone who can stand the demands of being with Harry Potter, because he’s a scary boyfriend in a lot of ways. He’s a marked man. I think she’s funny, and I think that she’s very warm and compassionate. These are all things that Harry requires in his ideal woman…. Initially, she’s terrified by his image. I mean, he’s a bit of a rock god to her when she sees him first, at 10 or 11, and he’s this famous boy. So Ginny had to go through a journey… I didn’t want Ginny to be the first girl that Harry ever kissed. That’s something I meant to say, and it’s kind of tied in…. And I feel that Ginny and Harry, in this book, they are total equals. They are worthy of each other. They’ve both gone through a big emotional journey, and they’ve really got over a lot of delusions together. So, I enjoyed writing that. I really like Ginny as a character.
— J.K. Rowling
I've got two neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, "that can't be right, can it?""Aaaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mystical whisper, "when two neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry..."Seamus and Dean, who were working nearby, sniggered loudly, though not loud enough to mask the excited squeals from Lavender Brown- "Oh Professor, look! I think I might've gotten an unexpected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?""It is Uranus, my dear," said Professor Trelawney, peering down at the chart."Can I get a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" said Ron.
— J.K. Rowling
Not at all, I just don't understand how the Arch Alchemist became mortal all of a sudden.""Because he split his soul into seven pieces and hid them all over Justice City," Toby retorted."You turned our comic book into a Harry Potter rip-off?" I spluttered.
— Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
Harry dreamed he was back in the DA room. Cho was accusing him of luring her there under false pretences; she said he had promised her a hundred and fifty Chocolate Frog Cards if she showed up. Harry protested... Cho shouted, 'Cedric gave me loads of Chocolate Frog Cards, look!' And pulled out fistfuls of Cards from inside her robes and threw them into the air. Then she turned into Hermione, who said, 'You did promise her, you know, Harry... I think you'd better give her something else instead... how about your Firebolt?'And Harry was protesting that he could not give Cho his Firebolt, because Umbridge had it, and anyway the whole thing was ridiculous, he'd only come to the DA room to put up some Christmas baubles shaped like Dobby's head...
— J.K. Rowling
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
— John Granger, Looking for God in Harry Potter
Hello, Harry!” she said.“Er — my name’s Barny,” said Harry, flummoxed.“Oh, have you changed that too?” she asked brightly.“How did you know — ?”“Oh, just your expression,” she said.Like her father, Luna was wearing bright yellow robes, which she had accessorized with a large sunflower in her hair. Once you got over the brightness of it all, the general effect was quite pleasant. At least there were no radishes dangling from her ears.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...
— Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen
Lies propagate, that's what I'm saying. You've got to tell more lies to cover them up, lie about every fact that's connected to the first lie. And if you kept on lying, and you kept on trying to cover it up, sooner or later you'd even have to start lying about the general laws of thought. Like, someone is selling you some kind of alternative medicine that doesn't work, and any double-blind experimental study will confirm that it doesn't work. So if someone wants to go on defending the lie, they've got to get you to disbelieve in the experimental method. Like, the experimental method is just for merely scientific kinds of medicine, not amazing alternative medicine like theirs. Or a good and virtuous person should believe as strongly as they can, no matter what the evidence says. Or truth doesn't exist and there's no such thing as objective reality. A lot of common wisdom like that isn't just mistaken, it's anti-epistemology, it's systematically wrong. Every rule of rationality that tells you how to find the truth, there's someone out there who needs you to believe the opposite. If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy; and there's a lot of people out there telling lies.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
If I could just get Broom to cooperate, we could fly, Glo said. Then we wouldn't have to worry about traffic. Harry Potter didn't have to worry about traffic.You relize Harry Potter isn't real, right? Of course, but he could be. I mean, maybe not Harry Potter, but someone like him. Who's to say?
— Janet Evanovich, Wicked Business
Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex.
— Lev Grossman
Sometimes Harry thought the deepest split in his personality wasn't anything to do with his dark side; rather it was the divide between the altruistic and forgiving Abstract Reasoning Harry, versus the frustrated and angry Harry In The Moment.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Christian allegories are a dime a dozen. You can find them in any story, if you look hard enough. Even Harry Potter.
— Jason Krumbine, Just Dial 911 for Assistance
In a moral dilemma where you lost something either way, making the choice would feel bad either way, so you could temporarily save yourself a little mental pain by refusing to decide. At the cost of not being able to plan anything in advance, and at the cost of incurring a huge bias toward inaction or waiting until too late...
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
— Coco Chanel
India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.
— Shashi Tharoor
India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.
— Shashi Tharoor
Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.
— Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?
— Chetan Bhagat, What Young India Wants
India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.
— William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.
— B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language. I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.
— B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
These stupid biases and discrimination are the reason our country is so screwed up. It's Tamil first, Indian later. Punjabi first, Indian later. It has to end. National anthem, national currency, national teams - still, we won't marry our children outside our state. How can this intolerance be good for our country?
— Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!
— Romaine Rolland
Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.
— Gideon Haigh
She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn’t a leaf she recognised, that she could name or associate with her past.
— Renita D'Silva, Monsoon Memories
India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences
—  we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.
…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
— Virchand Gandhi
Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.
— Shashi Tharoor
In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.
— Eric Newby, Slowly Down the Ganges
India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.
— Thrity Umrigar, The Weight of Heaven
Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!
— Mallika Nawal, I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE
And Englishmen like posing as gods.
— E.M. Forster
This is indeed India! "…. The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of traditions, whose yesterday’s bear date with the modering antiquities for the rest of nations-the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien prince and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the world combined.
— Mark Twain
In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
— Virchand Gandhi
Ohh,' said the girl with a sad tilt of her
— Adam Rex, Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story
What is done cannot be undone,Knowing that, face it but do not run.
— Rupansh Gupta
Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar (you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment) contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!
— Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Krishna taught in the Bhadavad Gita: ‘karmanyeva-adhikaraste ma phalesu kadachana’, which means, ‘Be active, never be inactive, and don’t react to the outcome of the work.
— Anonymous, Buddhist Scriptures
Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.
— Shobhaa Dé, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable
Even as I took a long, hard look at some of the obvious downsides (Q: 'What are the three things keeping India down? A: Corruption, corruption and corruption.'), I still felt the upsides (Q: 'What is so fantastic about the India story? A: People, people and people.') tilted the scales in our favor.
— Shobhaa Dé, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable
The trouble is Indians aren't used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the staple here, and has been for many centuries.
— Shobhaa Dé, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable
Our population of 121 crore is not a limitation – it is the reason we will grow.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows
At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me.
— Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself
Indian cricket, and the youngsters themselves, are dealing with issues inconceivable a few summers ago. Riches and all the attendant temptations are thrown at them before they have started shaving regularly. It's not their fault. It's no one's fault. That is the marketplace. Inevitably, though, it can distract attention from the long struggle towards mastery. Cricket does not give itself away; it expects players to apply themselves, to think and study and seek. It plays tricks, too, pretends that sixes and slower balls and the other shortcuts matter. Cricket sets traps, flatters players and calls them kings when they are barely princes.
— Peter Roebuck
Entertainment Law is not as Entertaining as Entertainment
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
Value of a Trade Mark is directly proportional to your Aggression and Risk Ratio.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Copyrights do not and cannot trump publicity rights, they are mutually exclusive
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Creative Commons has a lot to offer to the entertainment industry provided it is strategically merged with copyright commercialization strategy
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
A Trade Mark is a company’s persona and identity in the marketplace
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Patents stand for you when everything else is lost
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
The strength of a patent doesn’t come from its claims, it comes from the invention
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Patent Validity is a figment of legal interpretation, it can be contested, reversed and cancelled any time before expiry
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Working a Patent is not as easy as it sounds
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human right
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
You can derive value from the Indian patent system, provided you know how it works. Stop cribbing about how it is not like another country’s system, and start thinking about how you can gain business value
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Representations that do not make sense are the best Trade Marks
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Every Trade Mark you Build adds to the financial value of your business, much more than your tangible assets
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
We love patents, but not unconditionally;We believe in patents, but not mindlessly;We value patents, but not at the cost of our core values; andWe are serious about patents, but saving life always comes first
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
There is a Pirate in every one of us
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Grant is the beginning of the Patent Game, not its end.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Patents are not forever, but inventions are
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
A Patent is a Grant, but Inventorship is a Right
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Patents need inventors more than inventors need patents
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Inventors do not invent for financial gain, they invent simply because they love to invent
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.
— Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars
Fill this city of mine with people as,You filled the river with fishes O Lord.
— Quli Qutub Shah
Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion. I find it immensely congenial to be able to face my fellow human beings of other faiths without being burdened by the conviction that I am embarked upon a “true path” that they have missed.
— Shashi Tharoor, Riot
India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.
— Hanadi Falki, The Price of Our Silence
The Chinese construction of South Asia’s tallest edifice, the Lotus (a Lotus Sutra in Buddhism) Tower, both points to Beijing’s Peaceful Rise and unsettles some onlookers. For the nervous India and the United States, the cleverly designed and highly sophisticated rising communications tower is more than a Buddhist symbol of Peaceful Rise.
— Patrick Mendis, Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
A homeland is not gotten as a gift; it is not acquired by privilege or political contracts, it is not bought with gold or held by force. No, it is made with the sweat of the brow; it is the historic creation and collective enterprise of the people, the fruit of its people’s labor bodily, spiritually, morally over the span of generations.
— David Ben Gourion
Hindu fundamentalism,” because Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: no organized church, no compulsory beliefs or rites of worship, no single sacred book. The name itself denotes something less, and more, than a set of theological beliefs. In many languages — French and Persian amongst them — the word for “Indian” is “Hindu.” Originally “Hindu” simply meant the people beyond the river Sindhu, or Indus. But the Indus is now in Islamic Pakistan; and to make matters worse, the word “Hindu” did not exist in any Indian language till its use by foreigners gave Indians a term for self-definition.
— Shashi Tharoor, Riot
She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The real reason for Father Braganza's laughter was the history of Amrapur. It was a quaint town, nestled amidst barren mountains. The Hindus and Muslims living there were perpetually warring with each other, reacting violently at the slightest provocation. It had started a long time ago, this squabble, and had escalated into a terrible war. Some people say it started centuries ago, but many believe it started when the country gave one final, fierce shrug to rid itself of British rule. The shrug quickly became a relentless shuddering, and countless people were uprooted and flung into the air. Many didn't survive. Perhaps the mountains of Amrapur absorbed the deracinating wave. People weren't cruelly plucked from the town. They remained there, festering, becoming irate and harbouring murderous desires. And while the country was desperately trying to heal its near-mortal wounds and move on, Amrapur's dormant volcano erupted. Momentary and overlooked, but devastating. Leaders emerged on both sides and, driven by greed, they fed off the town's ignored bloodshed. They created ravines out of cracks, fostered hatred and grew richer. The Bhoite family, the erstwhile rulers of the ancient town, adopted the legacy of their British rulers---divide and conquer.
— Rohit Gore, A Darker Dawn
The three flower shops were obliterated. The petals of the once-dewy flowers and their sellers' flesh burnt together. The people reacted and, unlike the birds, they did not react in unison. They ran towards the narrow streets near the masjid, trampling over the old and limping beggars. They pushed and shoved and cursed and cried. The birds circled in the air, pitying the humans who had lost their humanity.
— Rohit Gore, A Darker Dawn
He could not help but admire his posters every time he saw them---the son of a rickshaw puller, now the chief of a prominent political party in this town, who was expected to win by an unprecedented margin of votes in the coming elections. There were many people in the party who begrudged his presence, his power, but they could do nothing. The people of Amrapur loved him and his speeches. Some people called them inflammatory, divisive, and harmful to the peace and harmony of the town. A smile spread across his face every time he heard that word. Has anything ever been achieved by harmony? What would the leaders do with harmony? Why would people come to listen to his speeches in droves if they wanted harmony? Elections can never be won by harmony.
— Rohit Gore, A Darker Dawn
Migration is often accompanied by a feeling of unavoidable disorientation, and the circumstances of 1947 would have pronounced this feeling. In most cases, it would have created an involuntary distance between where one was born before the Partition and where one moved to after it, stretching out their identity sparsely over the expanse of this distance. As a result, somewhere in between the original city of their birth and the adopted city of residence, would lay their essence – strangely malleable.
— Aanchal Malhotra, Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul would be as bad as a partition in the Indian soil. For my sons, the only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts. An India neither Hindu nor Muslim, but both. That is the only India that will allow them to continue to call themselves Indians.
— Shashi Tharoor, Riot
Once upon a time, there was a civilization in the eastern side of the world. It was one of the most advanced civilizations on the planet that existed during that time.This civilization was the glorious Indus valley civilization. No, I am not talking about India. I am talking about the land of greatness that got lost in time. Today, in the same geographical location of that great civilization, we have a piece of earth, which is known as “India”. But do not mistake it to be the same glorious land that existed thousands of years ago, along with other magnificent civilizations, such as the Greeks, the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Babylonians etc.
— Abhijit Naskar, Prescription: Treating India's Soul
I am pain-stricken to say, since the moment I was born, I have found nothing extraordinary in this ancient land of greatness to be exceptionally proud of. I am not a proud Indian. India at its present condition has given me no reason to feel proud.However, I do feel proud of the ancient Indians, just like I feel proud of the ancient Greeks, the Mayans, the ancient Egyptians, the Babylonians and so on. Scientists are beyond borders, just like the ancient scientists of India, whom you prefer to call as sages.
— Abhijit Naskar, Prescription: Treating India's Soul
As a sign of utmost gratitude for his contributions to the Indian society in restoring equal rights of the citizens, I confer him (B.R. Ambedkar) the title “Martin Luther King Jr. of India.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the mid-day sun always excepted. Too much work and too much energy kill a man as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink. Flirtation does not matter, because every one is being transferred, and either you or she leave the station and never return. Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output, and another man takes all the credit of his best as a rule. Bad work does not matter, because other men do worse, and incompetents hang on longer in India than anywhere else. Amusements do not matter, because you must repeat them as soon as you have accomplished them once, and most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money. Sickness does not matter, because it's all in the day's work, and if you die, another man takes over your place and your office in the eight hours between your death and burial. Nothing matters except Home-furlough and acting allowances, and these only because they are scarce. It is a slack country, where all men work with imperfect instruments, and the wisest thing is to escape as soon as you ever can to some place where amusement is amusement and a reputation worth the having.
— Rudyard Kipling, The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
I’m typing this as loudly as I can to deceive our lovely Indian maid that I can type amazingly quickly and that this is of vital importance, and that’s why I need her to come into the house three times a week and clean the floors, scrub the toilets, polish the stainless steel and buff the porcelain. Did I spell that right? I don’t know, but I’m not going to stop to check – she’s listening!
— Eskay Teel, Alice in Worcestershire: Brummie girls do cry
To the traditional Indians, terms such as “intercourse”, “penis”, “vagina”, “clitoris”, “semen”, “masturbation”, “breasts”, etc. are exclusive possessions of the night. The traditional Indians perceive these terms as something “dirty”. No matter how old they look, they really never grow up to talk and discuss about sex.
— Abhijit Naskar, Prescription: Treating India's Soul
And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isn’t another outfit in the world that balances better the twin feminine urges to conceal and reveal. It outlines the woman’s shape but hides the faults a skirt can’t — under a sari a heavy behind, unflattering legs are invisible. But it also reveals the midriff, a part of the anatomy most Western women hide all the time. I was mesmerized, Randy, by the mere fact of being able to see her belly button when she walked, the single fold of flesh above the knot of her sari, the curve of her waist toward her hips. That swell of flesh just above a woman’s hipbone, Randy, is the sexiest part of the female anatomy to me. And I didn’t even have to undress her to see it. I was completely smitten.
— Shashi Tharoor, Riot
minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the mainstream, of being here on sufferance. I refuse to let others define me that way. I tell my fellow Muslims: No one can make you a minority without your consent.
— Shashi Tharoor, Riot
One Said, 'My grandfather once planted a Langra tree but, before he could eat the fruit, he had to marry it to another tree. A tamarind. Custom decreed it.''I know about that custom,' said a colleague. 'The jasmine is considered a suitable bride for a mango.
— Alexander Frater, Chasing the Monsoon
This is not India. There are people here from every part of India, but Bombay isn't India. Bombay is an own-world, a world in itself. The real India is out there.
— Gregory David Roberts
India is the mother of science; many centuries ago, the first stream of science was flow out from here to flushed the entire world.
— Tanmaya Guru
I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India!
— Vinayak Muraleedharan
India has been directionless due to lack of leadership.
— Tanmaya Guru
India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them. Over the centuries, many powers have defeated Indian armies; but none has ever proved immune to this capacity of the subcontinent to somehow reverse the current of colonisation, and to mould those who attempt to subjugate her. So vast is India, and so uniquely resilient and deeply rooted are her intertwined social and religious institutions, that all foreign intruders are sooner or later either shaken off or absorbed.
— William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
We also have the right to food in India.
— Tanmaya Guru
The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.
— Abhijit Naskar
If America is a melting-pot, then to me India is a thali, a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not necessarily mix with the next, but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast.
— Shashi Tharoor, Bookless in Baghdad: Reflections on Writing and Writers
Well, we have to do something. There are all sorts of rumours about soldiers coming up.""These people are full of rumours. They love rumours." Paterson stood watching the bridge. "Their whole life is a rumour.
— H.E. Bates
I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
In the countryside he heard horns and drums and followed the sound to a temple of granite and marble set in a compound that included shrines and incense stalls, people squatting against the walls, beggars, touts, flower-sellers, those who watch over your shoes for a couple of weightless coins.
— Don DeLillo, The Names
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It [the Quit India Resolution] was very far from being the Gita, but like Gita it suffered from flood of explanations, commentaries, and interpretations.
— R.P. Noronha, A Tale Told By An Idiot
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— Ashwin Sanghi, The Sialkot Saga
The overload of useless ceremonials and worship have crippled the whole nation. If you want to do good to your nation and yourself, then throw away your ancient ceremonials as far as possible.
— Abhijit Naskar, Prescription: Treating India's Soul
India's IP policy reflects the confusion in the minds of the policymakers .
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Road Humps and Sidewalks
To take a stand on IP, India needs to have a stand first.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Road Humps and Sidewalks
India! The land is considered sacred by the world community from the primitive dimension.
— Tanmaya Guru
The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.
— Shashi Tharoor, Bookless in Baghdad: Reflections on Writing and Writers
And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.
— Aravind Adiga
Why have the English remained to English? Throughout India's history conquerors have come from elsewhere, and all of them --- Turk, Arab, Hun, Mongol, Persian --- have become Indian. If --- when ---this Pakistan happens, those Muslims who leave Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad to go there, They will be leaving their homes. But when the English leave, they'll be going home.
— Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
Bombay, you will be told, is the only city India has, in the sense that the word city is understood in the West. Other Indian metropolises like Calcutta, Madras and Delhi are like oversized villages. It is true that Bombay has many more high-rise buildings than any other Indian city: when you approach it by the sea it looks like a miniature New York. It has other things to justify its city status: it is congested, it has traffic jams at all hours of the day, it is highly polluted and many parts of it stink.
— Khushwant Singh, Truth, Love and a Little Malice
history has no overall direction or purpose
— Damien Keown, Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.
— E.M. Forster
The book of nature has no beginning, as it has no end. Open this book where you will, and at any period of your life, and if you have the desire to acquire knowledge you will find it of intense interest, and no matter how long or how intently you study the pages, your interest will not flag, for in nature there is no finality.
— Jim Corbett
The true history of the world must always be the history of the few; and as we measure the Himalaya by the height of Mount Everest, we must take the true measure of India from the poets of the Veda, the sages of the Upanishads, the founders of the Vedanta and Sankhya philosophies, and the authors of the oldest law-books, and not from the millions who are born and die in their villages, and who have never for one moment been roused out of their drowsy dream of life.
— Friedrich Max Müller, India: What it Can Teach Us
It is easy, from a safe distance, to overlook the fact that in undercities governed by corruption, where exhausted people vie on scant terrain for very little, it is blisteringly hard to be good.
— Katherine Boo
Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the untouchables.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
I'm sorry that I hurt you.""You didn't hurt me." There was a long pause on the phone. Then she said,"You are going to hurt from this longer than I ever will. It's true that I didn't know what kind of Indian you were. But what hurts me most is to know what kind of man.
— Tony D'Souza, The Konkans
If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While India rarely spoke about its imperative as the moral one, and few people steeped in realpolitik can shed their cynicism when a politician speaks in moral terms, and the intervention certainly suited India's strategic interests, the fact remains that in the annals of humanitarian interventions, few were as swift, successful, purpose-driven and with humanitarian goals as the Indian intervention to liberate Bangladesh. India went in when it was attacked, and left before its troops became unpopular.
— Salil Tripathi, The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy