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“As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.”

Demand India Prosperity Opening Reform Urban Housing Opening Up

Author:Kushal Pal Singh

“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.”

Inspirational Long War Enough Demand Speech India England Enthusiasm Speakers Bombay Bernard Shaw

Author:Will Rogers

“If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.”

Ifs Want Should Energy Support Greater Growing Sky Demand Discovery India Bills Rate China Oil Dependence Coal Gore New Discoveries Foreign Oil China And India Sky High

Author:Al Gore

“When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

World Running Water Simple Poor Demand India Blame Farmers Consumerism Pumps Overconsumption Gasoline Gallons

Author:Richard J. Foster

“I am firmly convinced that the trend toward more fuel-efficient vehicles is not a fad. Gas prices will continue to rise in the medium to long term, because demand is growing considerably in China, India and other countries.”

Long Country Term Growing Demand India China Convinced Mediums Long Term Fuel Gas Trends Efficient Vehicle Other Countries Fads Gas Prices

Author:Norbert Reithofer

“I see the role of IT as a change agent. It empowers, connects and can bind isolated parts of India and create harmony. IT can join people with governments, bridge the gap between demand and supply, and can bring us closer to knowledge.”

People Government Roles Technology Demand India Harmony Agents Bridges Empowering Gaps Isolated Information Technology Change Agent

Author:Narendra Modi

“Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not.”

Want Giving Done Development Demand Models India Driven Village Governance Impetus

Author:Narendra Modi

“If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come searching for India.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Democracy Streets Demand India Governance Demographics

Author:Narendra Modi

“I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.”

States Interest Demand India Islam Formation

Book:Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction

Source: Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction

“India offers demographic dividend, democracy and demand...3D. I have added a new D. De-regulation.”

Democracy Offers Demand India Regulation Demographics Dividends

Author:Narendra Modi

“Even if America tomorrow - and it won't happen overnight - but if we did reduce our demand for gas and natural gas and crude oil by a significant degree, that does have an exponential effect on producers in the Middle East, everything else being equal. But if China's demand is growing and India's demand is growing, they are not going back.”

Ifs Doe Happens America Natural Growing Middle Effects Tomorrow Demand Equal Degrees India China Oil East Significant Producers Gas Middle East Crude Natural Gas Being Equal Crude Oil

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Oil is a tangible commodity, so there is a global market. The fact that we may need less may affect the global price because we're big consumers: we probably take about a quarter of global demand. But if suddenly, let's just use a crazy example, fighting in the Middle East led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and no oil could get out through the Strait of Hormuz, well that would affect China, India, Europe, it will affect the whole global economy. It will affect us, too, then.”

Ifs Needs Wells May Whole Facts Use Bigs Fighting Economy Crazy Middle Example Demand Europe India China Oil East Consumers Quarters Middle East Commodity Tangible Closure Global Economy

Author:Thomas Friedman

“The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the world's treasury of knowledge. The life force, which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart-pump, must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath.”

“If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.”