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The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

— Kalki Krishnamurthy Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)

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Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

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Those who don’t actually witness such a happening can say, “No train will run off the rails, it is unnatural for it to do so”.

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