Manmohan Singh Quotes
I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
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What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.
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A car produces about one pound of CO2 per mile. There is no problem with collecting the CO2 in the tailpipe, but one might easily end up with a trailer hitched to the car for carrying all this CO2 back to the filling station. The gas burned from a 15-gallon tank would fill up five 60-inch-tall gas bottles.
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That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.
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I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament.
