History never repeats itself, historians do.
— Lee BensonIf where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.
— Amit KalantriFail soon so that you can succeed sooner.
— Amit KalantriHow Horrid' has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.
— Alison BechdelLet someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.
— Amit KalantriIf she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.
— Amit KalantriThe problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.
— Kambiz ShabankareThe matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...
— PlatoCowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.
— Amit KalantriMetaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.
— Milan Kundera