China And India Quotes

• India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

  Hu Shih

  Soldier, Independence, India

  "Consolation of Mind". Book by H. K. Suhas, p. 111, 2004.

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• In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

  Peter Mandelson

  Space, India, Dramatic

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• The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

  Klaus Schwab

  Keys, Issues, India

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• I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

  Li Peng

  Years, Hands, Progress

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• When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

  Thomas Friedman

  Education, Daughter, Mother

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.

  Paul Achleitner

  America, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

  George W. Bush

  Country, Agreement, India

  Joint Press Availability with President Lee Myung-Bak of the Republic of Korea in Camp David, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 19, 2008.

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• The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

  Freeman Dyson

  Optimistic, India, China

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.

  Li Peng

  Country, Rights, Order

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• China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

  Li Peng

  Rivers, Years, Chinese

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• The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.

  Bill McKibben

  Climate Action, Ideas, India

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit China and India. They're ready to go. And half of the world wants to drag us into the past. The problem is both sides have guns. I think there really is a reaction. A lot of people are saying enough is enough.

  Paul Saffo

  Gun, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

  Laurent Fabius

  Country, Exercise, Technology

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• The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

  Derek Bok

  Country, Bhutan, Goal

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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• Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

  Li Peng

  Country, People, India

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• China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Suffering, Climate, India

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Burma wants to have good relations with our neighboring countries, China and India. I do believe the United States itself wants to live in harmony with China and India. That's why we have to lay down political policies that are fair for everyone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Believe, Political

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Agreement, Paris

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference", ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, People, World

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• If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the main event will be in the developing world. We must use the smartest possible economics, and that means investing in China and India.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Mean, Goal, Atmosphere

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• American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

  Andy Stern

  Country, Jobs, Competition

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• The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.

  Paul Brown

  Average, Numbers, People

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• It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the kind of leadership that might allow us to nudge China and India, say, onto different energy trajectories, in order to improve our own chances of surviving this century.

  Bill McKibben

  Cutting, Exercise, Order

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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