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Quotes by Indian Authors
"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."
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"Failures should never become hindrance in the learning process. Instead, we must learn from our failures to strive and overcome challenges in our lives."
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"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"
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"Direct benefit transfer is a big reform. Earlier who knew where MNREGA money was going? Now it is sent by DBT. So are gas subsidy payments and student scholarships. For me all these are reforms in governance, transparency."
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"Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?"
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"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."
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"May Lord Ganesha bless you with abundant happiness, prosperity, and wisdom this Ganesh Chaturthi and throughout the year."
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"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die."
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"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
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"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."
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"This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for you and the happiness you bring into my life. Have a wonderful holiday!"
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"I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India."
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"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation."
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"I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved."
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"When you are no longer seeking, you have arrived."
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"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."
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"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."
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"India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies."
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"As the U.S. businesses search for new areas of economic growth, markets for their goods, a pool of skilled resources, and global locations to produce and manufacture, India could be their ideal partner. India's strong economy, and growth rate of 7.6% per annum, is creating new opportunities for our mutual prosperity."
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"The administration of a country, more than any other human activity, is carried on in the atmosphere of moral compromise."
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"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."
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"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
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"Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model."
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"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."
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"You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all."
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"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."
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"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
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