WELL KNOWN QUOTATIONS
'QUOTATIONS'
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PERSON
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‘Just as
I would not like to be a slave, so I would not like to be a master’
‘A Government, of the
people by the people and for the people’
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Abraham Lincoln
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‘Give us tool and we
will finish the job’
‘I have nothing to
offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.’
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Sir Winston Churchill
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‘If God did not exist,
it would be necessary to invent him.
‘Crush the infamous
thing’.
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Voltaire
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‘ The un examined life
is not worth living ’
‘Other men live to
eat. I eat to live.
‘Nothing can harm a
good man, either in life or after death.’
‘I know nothing except
that fact of my ignorance’
‘The unexamined life
is not worth living’.
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Socrates
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‘ The Gods help them
who help themselves’
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Aesop
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‘ The State ? It is me
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Louis XIV
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‘ I am not a culprit’
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Fidel Castro
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‘ It was only one
life,what is one life in the affairs of a state’
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Benitto Mussolini
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‘ Success is the sole
earthly judge of right and wrong’
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Adolf Hilter
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‘ The throne is but a
piece of wood covered with velvet’.
Give me good mothers
.I shall give you a good nation’.
‘ There is no word
such as impossible in my dictionary ‘
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Napolean Bonaparte
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‘ Et tu Brute’.
Vini Vidi Vici (I
came,I saw,I conquered)
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Julius Caesar
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‘I am dying with the
help of too many physicians’
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Alexander the Great
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‘Let a hundred flowers
bloom and let a thousand schools of thought contend’.
“Powers flows from the
barrel of a gun”.
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Mao- Tse -Tung
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“We can secure peace
only by preparing for war”.
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John F. Kennedy
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‘The living need
charity more than the dead
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George Arnold
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‘Reading make a full
man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man’.
‘Some books are to be
tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested’.
‘Studies serve for
delight, for ornament and for ability’.
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Francis Bacon
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‘Our sweetest songs
are those that tell of saddest thought
“If winter comes can
spring be far behind’’
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P.B. Shelley
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‘till Earth and Sky
stand presently at God’s great judgement seat’.
‘East is East and West
is West and never the twain shall meet’.
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Rudyard Kipling
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‘The more things a man
is ashamed of, the more respectable he is’
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Bernard Shaw
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Where wealth
accumulates, men decay’.
‘Wisdom makes but a
slow defence against trouble, though at last at sure one’.
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Oliver Goldsmith
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‘The roots of education
are bitter, but fruit is sweet.
‘Virtue is the mean
state between two vices, the one of excess and other deficiency’.
‘Man is by nature a
political animal’
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Aristotle
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‘Let them eat cakes’.
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Marie Antoinette
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My God, My God, why
hast thou forsaken me”
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Jesus Christ
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Nevertheless it moves’
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Galileo
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‘Play the game in the
spirit of game’.
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BaronPeirrede Coubertin
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‘The empty vessel
makes the greatest sound’.
‘Something is rotten
in the state of Denmark’
‘There is nothing
either good or bad but thinking makes it so’.
‘Brevity is the soul
of wit’.
‘Frailty thy name is
woman’.
‘To be or not to be,
that is the question’.
‘Cowards die many
times before their death, the valiant never taste death but once’.
‘All the world is a
stage and all the men and women merely players’
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William Shakespere
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‘All our knowledge
brings us nearer to our ignorance’.
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T.S. Eliot
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‘End justifies the
means
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Nicholo Machiavelli
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‘Genius is one percent
inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration’.
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Thomas Alva Edison
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‘Knowledge is power’
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Thomas Hobbes
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‘Superstition is the
religion of feeble minds’
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Edmund Burke
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‘The style is the name
himself’
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Buffon
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‘Proper words in
proper place’
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Johnathan Swift
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Nature never did
betray the heart that loved her’.
‘The child is the
father of man’.
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William Wordsworth
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‘A little knowledge is
a dangerous thing’.
‘Fools rush in where
angels fear to tread’
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Alexander Pope
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‘A thing of beauty is
a joy forever’
‘Heard melodies are
sweet but those unheard are sweeter’.
“Beauty is truth and
truth beauty”.
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John Keats
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‘Power tends to
corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’.
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Lord Acton
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‘Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity’.
‘Man is born free, yet
every where he is in chains’
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Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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‘Whom the gods
love die youn
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Lord Byron
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‘It takes two to speak
the truth - on to speak and the other to hear’.
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Henry David Thoreau
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‘The history of the
world is but the biographies of great men’.
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Thomas Carlyle
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‘Better to reign in
hell than serve in heaven’.
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John Milton
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‘Patriotism is the
last refuge of a scoundrel’
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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‘Better a live sparrow
than a dead eagle’.
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Fitzgerald
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‘Romanticism is
disease classicism is health’
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Von Goethe
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‘Taxation without prosperity’
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Jacob Molecschott
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‘To every action there
is an equal and opposite reaction.’
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Sir Isaac Newton
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‘Thank God I have done
my duty’.
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Last words of Lord Nelson
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‘Virtue is its own
reward’
‘The good of the
people is the chief law’
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Cicero
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“Give me a place to
stand and I can move the entire earth”.
‘Eureka ! Eureka! (I
have found it)’ -
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Archimedes
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‘Religion is the opium
of the people’
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Karl Marx
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‘Man is a tool making
animal’
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Benjamin Franklin
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‘Direct Action’
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Mohammed Ali Jinnah
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‘Good government is no
substitute for self government’.
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Morley
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One small step for men
a leap for mankind (On the stepping on moon)
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Neil Armstrong
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‘I think therefore I
am’.
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Descartes
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‘Truth and non -
violence are my God’
‘Do or die’
‘Hai Ram’
‘Untouchability is a
crime against God and mankind’ ‘
A customer is the most
important person in our premises’.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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‘Ram and Rahim are the
two different names of the same God’
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Kabir Das
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‘Kerala is a lunatic
asylum’
‘Live fast; die young’.
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Swami Vivekananda
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‘We have now to fight
for peace with the same courage and determination as we fought against
aggression’.
‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
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‘One caste, one God,
one religion for man’.
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Sree Narayana Guru
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‘Back to Vedas’
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Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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‘Generations to come,
it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and
blood walked up on this earth’.
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Einstein (About Gandhi)
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‘The whole universe is
my native land’
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Kalpana Chawla
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‘Swaraj is my
birthright I shall have it’
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Balagangadhara Tilak
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‘We have made a tryst
with destiny’.
‘Aram Haram Hai’
‘At the stroke of
midnight hour when the world sleeps India will wake to life and freedom’.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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‘Dilli Chalo’.
‘Give me blood’ I
shall give you freedom’
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Subhash Chandra Bose
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‘Garibi Hatao’
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Indira Gandhi
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‘Freedom is in peril.
Defend it with all your might’.
‘Work like a bull and
live like a hermit’.
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Dr. Ambedkar
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‘Aiming low is a
crime’
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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...... the light that
shone in this country was no ordinary light ..... for that light represented
that living truth ...
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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‘This was their finest
hour’
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Sir Winston Churchill
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‘More things are
wrought by prayers than this world dreams of’.
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Tennyson
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‘Take care to get what
you like or you will be forced to like what you get’.
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George Bernad Shaw
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‘The goal of war is
peace; of business, leisure’
The roots of education
are bitter, but fruit is sweet
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Aristotle
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Marriage is the only
adventure open to the timid
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Voltaire
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‘Know them thy self,
presume not God to scan’
‘The proper study of
mankind of a man’
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Alexander Pope
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The supreme happiness
of life is the conviction that we are loved’
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Victor Hugo
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‘Among freemen
there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet’
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Abraham Lincolin
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‘There is no god
higher than truth’
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Mahatma Gandhi
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‘The best portion of a
good Men’s life. His little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of
love’
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William Wordsworth
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“I am restless, I
thirst for the distant, the far away”
‘I would sooner fail
than not be among the greatest’
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John Keats
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‘The class struggle
necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat’
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Karl Marx (1818 - 83)
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Big, Bright and beautiful
(Describing the view of the earth from the space)
“The responsibility
for their flight lies from with history and with the giants of science
who proceeded the effort”.
(Farewell telecast
from space)
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Neil Armstrong
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Big brother is
watching you’
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George Orwel
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‘Be proud that you are
Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother’
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Vivekanada
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