"In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)"
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"…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi"
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"India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness."
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"Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money."
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"The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while"."
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"In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life."
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"Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody."
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"Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion."
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""Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times."
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"Above all, India is the land of religion."
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"Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen."
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"I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India."
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"Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people."
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"It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?"
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"All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong."
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"Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity."
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"Well, India is a country of nonsense"
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"The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories."
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"I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty."
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"India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body."
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