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“If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.”

Ifs Jobs Energy Effort Attention Media Cost India Climate Climate Change China Focused Emissions Epa China And India

Author:Fred Upton

“India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

Want War Hands Cost India Affair Shakes Fists One Sided

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in 2015. Adoption of increasingly cost-effective renewables holds the genuine promise of a new age of socio-economic development, powered by clean, increasingly decentralised, and sustainable energy. The opportunity for India is tremendous.”

“Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud.”

Should Motivation Space Proud Cost Overcoming India Programmes Hurdle

Author:Narendra Modi

“By saying Make in India, we are not only inviting companies for cost-effective manufacturing, but also giving them an opportunity of a large market for their products.”

Giving Opportunity Company Products Cost India Innovation Manufacturing Inviting Make In India

Author:Narendra Modi

“Make in India! By this, we mean we want to give low cost manufacturing, ease of business, skilled manpower. India is a land of huge possibilities & scope.”

Want Giving Mean Land Possibility Huge Cost Lows India Innovation Ease Scope Manufacturing Manpower Make In India

Author:Narendra Modi

“My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.”

Made Shows Political Courses Study Cost Weapons Argument India Burden Myth Nuclear Budgets Contribution Nuclear Weapons Unbearable Credible Deterrent Demolish Political Arguments

Author:Subramanian Swamy

“We [India in 70s] certainly were capable of producing eight to ten bombs, at a cost of about $250,000 each; and we had Boeing 707s to deliver them if we needed it, so I think we had a crude capability already at that time.”

Ifs Thinking Needed Cost Ten Capable India Eight Bombs Capability Crude Boeing

Author:Subramanian Swamy

“In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are being driven off their lands by mining companies, by dams, by infrastructure companies, and a huge battle is being waged. These are not people who have been co-opted into consumer culture, into the western notions of civilisation and progress. They are fighting for their lands and their livelihoods, refusing to be looted so that someone somewhere far away may "progress" at their cost.”

“Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.”

Men Years Humans Wells Made Hard Enough Effort Personality Cost Illusion Hundred Yoga India West Rounds Ancient Technique Buddhist Thread Texture Merry Onions Merry Go Round Unmasking

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

“I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.”

Source: What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67

“Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you will have to win liberty. Then, when India is free, you will have to organize the permanent army of Free India, whose task it will be to preserve our liberty for all time. We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom.”

Source: Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945

“The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.”

“The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.”

States President United Millions United States Cost India Expected Taxpayers

Author:Michele Bachmann

“The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.”

Jobs Moving Law Company Right Now Cost Taxes Office India China Permit Factories Deductions

Author:Sheldon Whitehouse