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In India, unlike in the United States and Australia, agriculture is not just a food producing enterprise but also the backbone of the livelihood security of nearly 60 per cent of the population.
M S Swaminathan

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Top 100 Quotes

Your thoughts and emotions may keep you fully engaged right now, but they are just small offshoots of life - they are not life itself.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The principles of Marx have changed both with the changing times as well as with varying conditions to the extent that parrot-like repetition of Marxism for solving problems facing our country would amount to a reactionary attitude rather than a scientific & pragmatic one.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Freedom can exist only when there is equality in all walks of life. Without equality, to talk about freedom is to deny freedom to many in the interest of a few.
Ram Manohar Lohia
We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.
Abhijit Banerjee
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
Paramhansa Yogananda
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor and more unashamed conversation.
Glenn Close
The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping that it'll kill your enemy.
Nelson Mandela
You have to dream before dreams can come true.
Apj Abdul Kalam
Do not run away from death, for you can never die before the appointed time, and nothing can save you from dying when the appointed time comes.
Zarathushtra
There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger, and greed.
Tulsi Das
All moments are beautiful - only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings - only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept them with deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.
Osho Rajneesh
If one knows that meat is only a sore of an animal, one will refrain from eating it.
Thirukkural
The whole world is poor, no one is rich. Only the one who has the wealth of God's name is rich.
Kabir
Compassion is the universal language of heart that unites us all.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Admiration usually follows shapes of surpassing beauty.
Kalidasa
One must consider resources, ways, time, place and nature of the deed before carrying out an act.
Thirukkural
In times of need we even call a donkey king.
Proverb
Education is not merely teaching of various academic subjects, but the cultivation of total reposnibilities in the student.
J Krishnamurthi
God is attained through devotion and through love.
Morari Bapu
A literary genius, it is said, resembles all, though no one resembles him.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have loved, will realise the Lord.
Guru Govind Singh
Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.
Thiruvalluvar
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russel
Include the world in your love, and call yourself a cosmic citizen.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Happiness exists in positive thoughts.
Mahatma Gandhi
By the establishment of continence energy is gained. The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will-power. Without chastity there can be no spiritual strength. Continence gives wonderful control over mankind. The spiritual leaders of men have been very continent, and this is what gave them power. Therefore the Yogi must be continent.
Swami Vivekananda
Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Kalidasa
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
A man of learning and self-control (sanyam) who is free from anger will be blessed by the god of virtue.
Thirukkural
If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate an entire family.
Jyotiba Phule
The right to know is the right to live.
Aruna Roy
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.
Baba Amte
There is no need to tonsure or grow long hair if one shuns evil deeds.
Thirukkural
He who is thoughtful, blameless, settled, dutiful, without passions, and who has attained the highest end, him I call a Brahman.
Dhammapada
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is diversity and plurality in life but we have always attempted to discover the unity behind them.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Who ignores not weak foe, with intellect waits for his opportunity, who displays in season ability, with the stronger desires no hostility; grieves not in calamity, applying all senses, patiently bearing misery, is wise - foremost of persons and all his foes but vanquished to be.
Vidur
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx
The cause for man's suffering is that he has restricted his love only to himself and his family.
Ramayana
India happens to be a rich country inhabited by poor people.
Manmohan Singh
Life would be dull and colorless but for the obstacles that we have to overcome and the fights that we have to win.
Rabindranath Tagore
There are lessons to be learnt from everyone. The wise person realises this.
Ramayana
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Mahavira
No cosmic purpose is served by our suffering or that of those dear to us—just as no cosmic purpose is served by our being born or by our dying; and that for the simple reason that there is no ‘cosmic purpose’.
Arun Shourie
When the seer realises the self-effulgent supreme being - ruler, maker and source of the creator even - then that wise one, shaking off all deeds of merits and demerits, become stainless and attains the supreme state of equipoise.
Mundokopanishad
The whole universe is to us a writing of the infinte in the language of the finite.
Swami Vivekananda
Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Einstein
Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
B R Ambedkar
Mode of completion, obstacles and profit should be measured well before venturing into an action.
Thirukkural
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the whole community.
Savitribai Phule
Another life-lesson: until our minds are emptied, how will we receive?
Arun Shourie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interest. This is bitter truth.
Chanakya
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx
Tapasya is the art of realizing the ultimate truth through self-discipline.
Annonymous
Even the donkey is beautiful when it is a baby.
Proverb
Those who endure insults are better than those who do penance by fasting.
Thirukkural
I realised, in all humility, that choosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other options.
Dr V Kurien
I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky
Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Freedom is a state of mind - not freedom from something.
J Krishnamurthi
The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment and abhorrence). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones)
Dada Bhagwan
A good leader is motivated when there are challenges to meet. He is alert in times of crisis.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love is the song of soul singing to God.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Give up your head, but forsake not those whom you have undertaken to protect. Sacrifice your life, but relinquish not your faith.
Guru Teg Bahadur
If you believed in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
Shashi Tharoor
The Muslims are the flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.
Narayan Murthy
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.
Shashi Tharoor
Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.
Apj Abdul Kalam
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
Religion can be defended by the purity of its adherents and their good deeds, never by quarrels with those of other faiths.
Mahatma Gandhi
Harmonising speech and action is the criterion for character building.
Annonymous
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.
Friedrich Engels
Cow protection is the eternal dharma of India.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Humility is different from servility.
Proverb
Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village
Bunker Roy
A nation is built in its educational institutions.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Belief in God can never be a matter for argument.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whether an illness affects your heart, your brain or your leg, It's still an illness and there should be no distinction.
Michelle Obama
When the aspiration is awake, each day brings us nearer to the goal.
Annonymous
When we tune out the opinions, expectations and obligations of the world around us, we begin to hear ourselves.
Jay Shetty
National character cannot be built on the shaky foundations of untruth, hypocrisy, ostentatious and conspicuous consumption.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Let us never forget that we are all children of our motherland. Indeed, I have never worked in any other spirit than that of an Indian who owes devotion to his nation and his fellow citizens.
Dadabhai Naoroji
Request the people of my country to continue this kranti. People should continue to fight even if I am not there. 
Anna Hazare
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi
All the knowledge in the world is no good if it deserts a person in the hour of need.
Ramayana
We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas - artificial baby glaciers.
Sonam Wangchuk
Females are the most georgeous creatures in the whole world. And I think we are goegeous no matter what size we are.
Alicia Keys
He who eats after entertaining guests (atithi) will reap a harvest even without sowing the fields.
Thirukkural
If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.
Ratan Tata
Dharma or religion which instills fear, that I do not consider that to be dharma; Religion is one which gives fearlessness.
Morari Bapu
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
If only we concentrate on discharging our immediate duty and apply ourselves with unswerving faith and devotion to the task of today, we shall have no difficulty in knowing what our duties will be tomorrow.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The Sanskrit name for a student, Brahmachârin, is synonymous with the Sanskrit word Kâmajit. Our goal of life is Moksha; how can that be ever attained without Brahmacharya or absolute continence? Hence it is imposed upon our boys and youth as an indispensable condition during their studentship. The purpose of life in the West is Bhoga, enjoyment; hence much attention to strict Brahmacharya is not so indispensably necessary with them as it is with us.
Swami Vivekananda
There is a degree of freedom that creates apirations.
Anand Mahindra
Our sweat is the answer to all our problems, and that the tiller, the artisan and the teacher are the three agents who feed the body, mind and soul.
Dr Zakir Hussain
A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

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