“Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process just as tradition affects us, we too affect tradition and culture, and we change it.”

“In the West, people learn through the Socratic tradition. The education system was influenced by Western philosophy and is based on constantly questioning the knowledge thats handed to you and arri...”

“A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.”

“We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small things that we do every day, in the personal choices we make to think or not to think...”

“For people who are not on a particular social networking site, it can seem like you're not even living on the same planet you're essentially not functioning in the same frame.”

“The characters so many Bollywood actresses portray are ultimately flat, uncomplicated, two-dimensional stock characters that typically range between the girl-next-door and the diva. They may be fla...”

“When it comes to lovedo not eversettle for anythingless than magical.”

“Wordsare powerfulforces of nature.they are destruction.they are nourishment. they are flesh. they are water.they are flowers and bone.they burn. they cleansethey erase. they etch. they can eitherle...”

“When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it.”

“I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We'll meet in that new place, all of us together...”

“There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.”

“[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. ...”

“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“The mediastenographers to power.”