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"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization." »Sylvia Levi
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"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree." »English proverb
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow." »Charles Krauthammer
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"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." »Mary Hirsch
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"Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." »Mary Hirsch
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"plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give." »Anthony Norvell
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"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying" »Jalal ud-Din Rumi
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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." »Indira Gandhi
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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." »Mark Twain
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"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub." »Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." »H. L. Mencken
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"That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion." »Robin Green
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"What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." »Greek proverb
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." »Martin Luther
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"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old." »Charles Caleb Colton
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