India Quotes - Page 26

• Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Independent, Leader, Use

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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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• The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Thinking, Erotic, Alternatives

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is in fact necessary to reduce CO2 emissions. There is no reason why we shouldn't spend our vacations on (the North Sea island of) Sylt instead of in the Seychelles, or drive more economical cars - for the sake of preserving increasingly scarce resources if nothing else. But that won't enable us to stop climate change. As long as China, India and the United States continue the way they have been, what we Germans do is more or less irrelevant.

  Hans von Storch

  Vacation, Islands, Sea

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Discovery, Long, Loyal

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• Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

  Paul Theroux

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hate, Love Is, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1759, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting Indias diversity.

  Preneet Kaur

  People, Diversity, Community

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• Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.

  Arjuna Mahendran

  Focus, Growth, Chinese

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.

  Douglas R Oberhelman

  Jobs, New Job, Want

  "Caterpillar CEO: Higher taxes do not stimulate anything". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

  Cyrus Broacha

  Comedy, Problem, Trouble

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• As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

  Abdul Kalam

  Technology, And Love, Citizens

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.196, Penguin Books India

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• I wish to become the greatest player in the world. I want to uphold the honor of India, the USA and of my coach and make basketball a prominent sport in India.

  Satnam Singh Bhamara

  Basketball, Sports, Player

  "The Punjab village behind India's NBA hoop dream" by Sara Sidner, www.cnn.com. March 22, 2012.

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• The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.

  Pankaj Mishra

  People, Tolerance, Trying

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Anxiety, Selling, Middle

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Ideas, America, Wife

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I can go to India and draw 20,000 people at a concert, and it's really because I've built up an internet presence.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  People, Internet, Concerts

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• There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Parent, Use, Calling

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99, Xist Publishing

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• Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take them from one place and send them to kill people in the other place. That's the standard way to run imperial wars.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Country, War

  25th Anniversary of Coalition for Peace Action in Princeton, New Jersey, www.democracynow.org. November 14, 2004.

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• England must have the mask of Christian peaceableness [peacefulness] torn publicly from her face... Our consuls in Turkey and India, agents, etc. must inflame the whole Muslim world to wild revolt against this hateful, lying, conscienceless people of hagglers. For even if we are to be bled to death, at least England shall lose India.

  Wilhelm II

  Christian, Lying, Turkeys

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• MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Dream, Men, Ms Dhoni

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2014

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• I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Stars, Home, Responsibility

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• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  Karan Johar

  Winning, Long, Want

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• You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the link between us has always grown in strength. I want to say how much I value the meaning of that bond, because it is one of true dedication to the service of God.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Home, Dedication, Links

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