A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
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War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
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Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
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Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.