Stanley Wolpert quotes

“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
-- Stanley Wolpert

Source : "Jinnah of Pakistan". Book by Stanley Wolpert, 1984.

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“An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.”
-- Stanley Wolpert

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“The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.”
-- Stanley Wolpert

Source : "Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why are William and Kate paying tribute to him on their visit to India?" by Kirstie McCrum, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2016.

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“She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times. She’d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.”

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”

Source : "Who Invented the Internet? (It Wasn’t Al Gore)". "Glenn Beck Program", September 15, 2016.

“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.

“I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'”

“As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.”

“My first album was completed in three months.”

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“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”