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Quotes by Leader
"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."
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"Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession."
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"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both."
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"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
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"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
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"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps."
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"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
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"A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad."
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"Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage."
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"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."
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"Only being an administrator & controller is not enough. Everybody, at every level, has to be an agent of change. Initiatives have succeeded when 'Jan Bhagidari' is embraced."
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"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin."
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"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions."
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"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."
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"When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less."
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"There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression."
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"Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion."
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"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
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"Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier."
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"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."
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"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
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"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit."
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"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."
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"Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials."
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"The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice."
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"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
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