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Quotes by Indian Authors
"Let the blessings of Lord Ganesha bring new opportunities, prosperity, and endless joy into your life this Ganesh Chaturthi!"
"I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact."
"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."
"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior."
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
"It's a long road. Setbacks don't actually matter."
"This Thanksgiving, may you be blessed with the perfect balance of feasting and reflection, celebration and gratitude, indulgence and appreciation."
"Drop the idea that you need to be perfect. You are already complete."
"As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future."
"If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free."
"Freedom is not about having no limitations, but about rising above them."
"The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of these things is just so huge. Sometimes I think we don't fully internalize what it is to get the power of knowledge in everyone's hand."
"May your day be filled with the perfect blend of Thanksgiving traditions, delicious food, cherished company, and grateful reflections."
"There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
"Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools."
"With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time."
"Bliss should come from within. We do not want the bliss that arises from looking on the outside. We want bliss that is eternal (sanatan anand)."
"Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two."
"Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done."
"If a person were to get stuck in attachment induced entrancement for any worldly thing for just one hour, then it will last for a hundred years! Because of pleasure resulting effects and intents of engrossment, an indulging bad habit will last one day of Brahma (many many years), therefore it is not worth focusing our awareness anywhere (other than our true self, pure soul)."
"Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?"
"When attachment increases too much, dislike will arise."
"When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech."
"Happy is the man who is nothing."
"What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure."
"I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form."
"Don't waste your life trying to fill up a hollow or a hollow be filled up because it not only makes your life shallow but your conscious hollow."
"To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who are not Muslims, are not just object of extreme detestation, they are, at the worst, lesser humans of false religions. This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst."
"Don't feel guilty for a crime you have not committed, commit it and be guilt free."
"More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it."
"Hurry, your imaginary heaven is calling you up, my dear holier-than-thou religious nuts."
"Influencing is just not about listening and speaking, it's the game of interpretation."
"It's a bet " the more you Give, the more you will Get."
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