Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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• I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.

  

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• When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

  

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• Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

  

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• Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

  

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• For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

  

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• All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.

  

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• Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.

  

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• In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

  

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• It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

  

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• Mucho de lo he dejado de hacer en mí, sigue haciéndose en mí, solo.

  

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• Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • West
  • Civilized
  • Asia