C. Rajagopalachari Quotes
What is wanted to save parliamentary democracy is an opposition that will operate not privately and behind the closed doors of the party meeting, but openly and periodically through the electorate.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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There is nothing important except people. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.
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After you eat a Hot Pocket, Everything will taste like rubber for a month!
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
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What is wanted to save parliamentary democracy is an opposition that will operate not privately and behind the closed doors of the party meeting, but openly and periodically through the electorate.
