Jairam Quotes

#1. IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING,

Terry Pratchett

#2. Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

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#3. India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

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#4. I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

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#5. Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

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#6. A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.

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#7. There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

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#8. SISTER TAYLOR Brother Mayor, I ain't one of these folks dat bite my tongue and bust my gall - Whuts inside got to come out!

Zora Neale Hurston

#9. The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

Shannon Hale

#10. Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

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#11. WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

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#12. I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

John Legend

#13. Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost.

Richard G. Scott

#14. I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

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#15. Fill your mind with thoughts of PEACE, COURAGE, HEALTH and HOPE

Dale Carnegie

#16. The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now

L. Ron Hubbard

#17. Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

#18. If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

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#19. India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

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#20. Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp ...

Georgia O'Keeffe

#21. Actions speak louder than words."

Hardly original but judge people by what they do rather than what they say they will do.

Thomas Ullman

#22. I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit - - - - - - - - - - - and wanted to shoot myself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#23. It does not matter about the dramas that you involve in outside of you. It only matters about understanding the backstage that is your mind playing within you

Srividya Srinivasan

#24. All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus

#25. The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.

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#26. I know from experience it's very hard to get access to a prison to take pictures.

David Allee

#27. The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.

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