"India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge."
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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."
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"God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts."
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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."
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"The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future."
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"Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind."
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"When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?"
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"If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves."
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"In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself."
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"Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs."
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"Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India."
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"Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be."
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"It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself."
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"Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner."
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"We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption."
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"I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now."
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"Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces."
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"But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else."
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"Pink is the navy blue of India."
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"India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot."
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