{"quotes":[{"text":"If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","creative-writing","essay","inspirational","knowledge","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","origin","past","philosophy","position","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","social-networking","social-status","source","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","wisdom","worth","worthwhile","worthy","writing"],"id":2531,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was easy for them, safe, and that was the whole point, after all: a statement of coddled opulence that burned the throats of the poor more than any ostentatious show of wealth.","author":"Steven Erikson","tags":["book-fo-the-fallen","deadhouse-gates","insightful","malazan","malazan-book-of-the-fallen","poverty","social-norms","social-stagnation","social-status","steven-erikson","survival"],"id":17713,"author_id":"Steven+Erikson"},{"text":"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","caste","castes","class","classes","culture","deep","denomination","dictum","dictums","dislike","epigram","epigrams","everybody","everyone","funny","gnome","gnomes","hate","hatred","hierarchy","human-beings","humanity","humans","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","like","liked","love","loved","made-me-think","make-you-think","mankind","maxim","maxims","nationality","philosopher","population","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","relationship","relationships","religion","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","social-class","social-classes","social-status","south-africa","south-african","status","tension","thought-provoking","thoughtful","world","world-population"],"id":250225,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["academics","college","education","jobs","schooling","social-status","unemployment"],"id":295889,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.","author":"Italian proverb","tags":["death","equality","game-of-life","life","social-status"],"id":297726,"author_id":"Italian+proverb"},{"text":"To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["controversial","differences","honesty","making-sense-of-the-world","negative","pleasing-others","positive","real","risky","social-status"],"id":301909,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...Has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.","author":"Aravind Adiga","tags":["murder","power","social-status"],"id":316285,"author_id":"Aravind+Adiga"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}