"If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative."
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"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh."
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"Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors."
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"If India is computer, Congress is its default program."
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"For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty."
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"From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary."
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"India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems."
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"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it."
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"If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity."
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"Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements."
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"I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much."
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"I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ."
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"India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century."
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"Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that."
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"Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical."
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"The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before."
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"I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St foin seed, & that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where."
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"By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God."
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"Let's fight against corruption for a better India"
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"Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children."
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