India Quotes - Page 27

• Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality is affected. We all eat the same fish. We use products from all over the world - if something is contaminated, it will cause harm.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Japan, Wind, Water

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• Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

  J. Milton Hayes

  Ideas

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• Appurv Gupta brings you a unique point of view that no other comedian in India does. Well worth a watch.

  Papa CJ

  Unique, Views, Comedian

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• The air they breathe, being a living element with both physical and psychical properties, carries a subtle vital energy. This in India is named by the Sanskrit word prana; in Tibet it is called sugs, in Aikido, Japan, ki, and in China, chi. By controlling its circulation throughout the body, man is able to attain spiritual enlightenment or illumination.

  Frank Waters

  Spiritual, Men, Air

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• A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.

  Russell Page

  Buddhism, Men, Garden

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• Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

  Jean Dreze

  Happened

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• Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.

  Karen Armstrong

  Military, Army, Years

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• Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.

  Chiranjeevi

  Powerful, Growth, Tourism

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• You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Country, Caring, Needs

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• Convergence of technology is important. One people, one mission, one nation, this will be possible then.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, People, Important

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• I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely a collection of a few medicines but a real science with a rational philosophy at its base. We require more scientific interest and inquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environment

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stress, Philosophy, Real

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• As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Risk, Innovation, Very Good

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• It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Entrepreneur, Encounters, Firsts

  "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I hate the title of being called the richest woman in India, but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur and that makes me very, very proud.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Hate, Entrepreneur, Titles

  "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piramal, Anu Agha, Swati Piramal, Sulajja Firodia Motwani and Zia Mody have put India on the global firmament.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Firmament, Business Woman, Indian

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• I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Dhoni, Helping, Cricket

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• He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.

  V. V. S. Laxman

  Dhoni, Quality, Doe

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• If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

  Kushal Pal Singh

  Urbanization, Has Beens, Ifs

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• Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

  Preity Zinta

  Two, Cricket, Two Things

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• I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

  Li Peng

  Years, Hands, Progress

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• In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.

  Li Peng

  Country, Rights, Order

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• The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

  Alistair Cooke

  Scotland, People, Mind

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Names, Vedas

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• The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

  Narendra Modi

  Mps, Empowerment, Village

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• In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, Community, Fading

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.239, Vintage

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