India Quotes - Page 32

• But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

  Carl Jung

  Track, Infinity, Leading Me

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. I cite the great civilizations of China and India.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Past, Men, Civilization

  "The Genius". Book by Theodore Dreiser, 1915.

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• In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Book, Order, Land

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• The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Character, Civilization

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Ideas, Revolution, Individual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, People, Waiting

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• I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.

  Allan Border

  Real, Years, Lasts

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• A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, Important, Necks

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• For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I will not hurt England or Germany to serve India . . . My patriotism is inclusive and admits of no enmity or ill-will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Patriotic, Ill Will

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• India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.

  C. N. Annadurai

  Government, Needs, Should

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• The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Thinking, Erotic, Alternatives

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Discovery, Long, Loyal

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• Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

  Paul Theroux

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.

  Arjuna Mahendran

  Focus, Growth, Chinese

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

  Cyrus Broacha

  Comedy, Problem, Trouble

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• As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

  Abdul Kalam

  Technology, And Love, Citizens

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.196, Penguin Books India

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• In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Ideas, America, Wife

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I can go to India and draw 20,000 people at a concert, and it's really because I've built up an internet presence.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  People, Internet, Concerts

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• Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take them from one place and send them to kill people in the other place. That's the standard way to run imperial wars.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Country, War

  25th Anniversary of Coalition for Peace Action in Princeton, New Jersey, www.democracynow.org. November 14, 2004.

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• I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Stars, Home, Responsibility

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• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  Karan Johar

  Winning, Long, Want

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• You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the link between us has always grown in strength. I want to say how much I value the meaning of that bond, because it is one of true dedication to the service of God.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Home, Dedication, Links

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• I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.

  N. T. Wright

  Wish, Culture, Heard

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heaven, Events, Doctrine

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Indian Home Rule”, p.8, The Floating Press

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