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I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
– Amitav Ghosh

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  2. Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  3. Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world. – Bette Davis
  4. I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one’s imagination. – Amitav Ghosh
  5. People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection. – Amitav Ghosh
  6. 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
  7. Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being. – Amitav Ghosh
  8. It’s something you don’t see until it’s gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes. – Amitav Ghosh
  9. Daily learning of your craft makes you master of your craft. – Seema Brain Openers
  10. Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed. – Jonny Steinberg
  11. Not allowing the mind its freedom to think and find the purpose of life takes away the vision to focus. – Amitav Chowdhury
  12. [W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were. – Anthony Lane
  13. Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods -¦ a few seconds after he took Viagra. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  14. The secret to staying atop your priorities is to schooled regular times for review and reflection. – Michael Hyatt
  15. Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion. – Susan Block
  16. If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  17. School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  18. A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  19. Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away. – Beth Nimmo
  20. Once bitten, twice alert.. Don’t shy away. – Tapan Ghosh
  21. The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there. – Tahir Shah
  22. I don’t like sleeping in the dark jungle by myself.Ren – Colleen Houck
  23. Happiness is not something you pursue, it is a state of mind and a feeling of positivity, within. – Amitav Chowdhury
  24. …the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times. – Upton Sinclair The Jungle
  25. Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric. – Amitav Chowdhury
  26. An organization can only grow and set an exemplary model for development with the help of right talent pool. – Amitav Chowdhury
  27. A lion’s greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  28. We follow the rules of Jungle.survival, survival, survival. – Haritha Velpureddy
  29. Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages. – Amitav Chowdhury
  30. Individuality should not translate to narcissism. Realizing the strength of individuality is an accomplishment while being narcissistic is a failure. – Amitav Chowdhury
  31. On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust. – Tahir Shah
  32. The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals. – Dave Eggers
  33. The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility. – Sara Sheridan
  34. The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade. – Tahir Shah
  35. Remember… It’s a jungle out there! – James R King
  36. It is important to know what you don’t want. – Amitav Chowdhury
  37. Love is a natural feeling, hatred is an acquired one. – Amitav Chowdhury
  38. Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. – Tahir Shah
  39. Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone. – Amitav Chowdhury
  40. In that country, rich or poor, a man was free… So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed. – Upton Sinclair The Jungle

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