Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.
A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.
Keep children as much as possible by themselves. . . keep them from company, good or bad. . . . It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. . . . in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.
Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again.
It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.
A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.