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Amitav Ghosh - The Glass Palace: A Novel (2000)

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To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

Amitav Ghosh

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In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men
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Amitav Ghosh

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Born: July 11, 1956 (age 69)
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