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South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela said, “It's a struggle of the African people inspired by their own suffering and experience. It's a struggle for the right to live.” The author devoted his life to the ideals he believed in and took a #LongWalkToFreedom

Professors of cognitive Steven Sloman and marketing Philip Fernbach wrote, “A good story has a moral that applies not just to this world but also to other worlds that we might find ourselves in.” The authors said people should know their ignorance to skip #TheKnowledgeIllusion

“कल इन्ही गलियों में इन मसली कलियों में तो ये धूम थी, जो रूह प्यासी है जिसमें उदासी है वो है घुमती, सबको तलाश वोही, समझे ये काश कोई, आहा.. ये है गुमराहों का रास्ता, मुस्कानें झूठी है, पहचानें झूठी है, रंगीनी है छाई फिर भी है तन्हाई” कवि जावेद अख़्तर गायिका सुमन श्रीधर की #तलाश

समाजसुधारक गुरुनानक ने कहा, “सांसारिक प्रेम की लौ जलाओ और राख की स्याही बनाओ, हृदय को कलम और बुद्धि को लेखक बनाओ, वह लिखो जिसका कोई अंत या सीमा नहीं है।” लेखक सरश्री ने ख़ुशी का खज़ाना दिया। मैं बड़ा हूँ कहकर छोटे न बने कहें कि मैं ईश्वर के हुकुम से बना हूँ, कहते #सद्‌गुरुनानक

Mental health expert Edward Bullmore wrote, “Overwhelming evidence for a strong association between inflammation and depression.” The author linked immune system and mental health, and also linked depression to inflammation of the body and brain, and called it #TheInflamedMind

Canadian climate activist Naomi Klein wrote, “Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Only one set of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature.” The author outlined the fight between capitalism and the climate, and how #ThisChangesEverything

Australian academician Germaine Greer said, “Unhappily we have accepted a notion of utter passivity and even irrelevance of the vagina.” The author encouraged women to take ownership of their bodies, sex and lives, and criticized societal pressure for creating #TheFemaleEunuch

Argentine journalist Andrés Oppenheimer said, “If your work can be easily explained, it can be automated, if not, no.” The author showed the future of automation, as for medical treatments, teaching, banking, journalism, transportation, law and manufacturing #TheRobotsAreComing !

Indian technologist Atul Jalan wrote, “Our biology and our technology have been meeting on the sly for years. But of late, the pace at which they're merging has increased.” The author explored the merger of human and artificial intelligence, and the question #WhereWillManTakeUs ?

Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov said, “If a brute force algorithm can't reach deep enough to see a position in its search tree, it doesn't exist.” Artificial intelligence surpassed human intelligence quite evident when IBM's Deep Blue beats the author in #DeepThinking

Neurobiological engineer Dr Alan Jasanoff said, “Soul-like views of the brain arise from a false distinction between the brain and its surroundings.” The author debunked cerebral mystique and called the complex interaction between brain, body and surrounding #TheBiologicalMind

“If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men counts with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And which is more you'll be a Man, my son!” Rudyard Kipling's poem #If

Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil wrote, “Modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.” The author offered solutions of world's challenges due to growing demand for #Energy

Evolutionary biochemist Nick Lane said, “We each hold within ourselves a ticking clock and the speed at which the clocks ticks is determined by our genes.” The author revealed the role of mitochondria in an organism's metabolism, energy production and cellular #PowerSexSuicide

Art historian Andrea Wulf said, “Man can only act upon nature and appropriate her forces to his use by comprehending her laws.” The author shed light on the life of prussian geographer Alexander von Humboldt, his ecological discoveries and his insights on #TheInventionofNature

Essayist Francine Prose said, “With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact its essential to slow down and read every word.” The author showed how to read literary works and ways to slow down reading for more enjoyable #ReadingLikeAWriter

Acid attack survivor Malti said, “Kitna achha hota agar acid bikta hi nahi milta hi nahi toh phikta bhi nahi.” The filmmaker Meghna Gulzar shared Malti's journey which often marginalised by social structure, and showed how deeply many lives are affected with a #Chhapaak

Management expert Chandramouli Venkatesan wrote, “The really effective people understand intuitively that they have to learn every hour and every day.” The author asked seekers to find one key factor, the stimuli that kickstart and support the growth, also called the #Catalyst