"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed……" — Abdul Kalam
"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"
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116 Quotes by Abdul Kalam
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of…
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the…
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You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
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Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power,…
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One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.
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If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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More Colonial Quotes
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial…
— Unknown Author
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department…
— Paul Robeson
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Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people…
— Ratan Tata
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We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth…
— Jeff Cooper
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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic…
— Karl Marx
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What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to…
— Newt Gingrich
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The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally…
— Thomas G. West
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The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in…
— Ratan Tata
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