"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
"If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India ."
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Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House
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