Reader\'s Digest IN 02.2020

POINTS TO PONDER

I believe that when people die, they zoom into the people

who love them. This idea that it just ends and don’t speak

of them—that’s wrong.

Martin Short, actor

Nearly every book has the same architecture—cover,

spine, pages—but you open them onto worlds and gifts

far beyond what paper and ink are, and on the inside

they are every shape and power.

Rebecca Solnit, writer

Every member of a university community, if he or she wishes

to aspire to be worthy of the university, must accept the truth

of Voltaire’s classic statement. Voltaire proclaimed ‘I may

disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend,

to the death, your right to say it’.

Dr Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India le

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