Patamata Praneel: January 2016

Quotes

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Former Prime Minister of India

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. Wikipedia

Born: November 14, 1889, Allahabad

Died: May 27, 1964, New Delhi

Spouse: Kamala Nehru (m. 1916–1936)

Children: Indira Gandhi

Parents: Motilal Nehru, Swaruprani Thussu

Quotes

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

Poet

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wikipedia

Born: April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, United Kingdom

Died: April 23, 1850, Cumberland

Poems: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Prelude, more

Influenced by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare

Quotes

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Zedong

Former Chairman of Chinese Communist Party

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed ...Wikipedia

Born: December 26, 1893, Shaoshan, China

Died: September 9, 1976, Beijing, China

Spouse: Jiang Qing (m. 1938–1976), more

Influenced by: Karl Marx, Sun Yat-sen, Lu Xun, Friedrich Engels, Kang Youwei, Alexander Herzen

Octave Mirbeau

Journalist

Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. Wikipedia

Born: February 16, 1848, Trévières, France

Died: February 16, 1917, Paris, France

Spouse: Alice Regnault (m. 1887–1917)

Movies: Diary of a Chambermaid, The Diary of a Chambermaid, The Woman in the Cupboard

Plays: Business is business, Home, Les Mauvais Bergers