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I definitely want to play rugby at the top level, international rugby. ”
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared. ”
My mother is a German who was brought up in the U.K. So, there is so much cross-cultural exposure I had as a child. But Mumbai is my city. ”
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. ”
I have my Masters degree in international relations, banking job experience with Citibank, and I have also worked in developmental organisations. ”
Wisdom begins in wonder. ”
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ”
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ”
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. ”
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ”