Aurangzeb quotes
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“I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.”
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“Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.”
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“No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.”
-- AurangzebSource : "Later Mughals : Volume II : 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, "Ruqat-i-Alamgiri", 1922.
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“I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.”
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“THE DEMOLITION OF A TEMPLE IS POSSIBLE AT ANY TIME, as it cannot walk away from its place.”
-- AurangzebSource : "Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud". Book by Arun Shourie, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
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“The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS”
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“Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.”
-- AurangzebSource : "Later Mughals: Volume II: 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, 1922.
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Source : Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.154, Penguin
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“I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.”
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“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.”
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“I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.”
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“I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.”
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“But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”
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