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“At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.”

Source: Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951

“Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis.”

Order Lost Members India Ancient China Japan Continents Egypt Ancient Egypt Tibet Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“President Bush went out touting his economic record in Ohio last week. Now this is a state that lost 225,000 jobs since Bush took office. You know, if Bush wants to tout his record, he should do it somewhere where the Bush economy has actually created jobs, like India, or Thailand, or China.”

Ifs Knows Want Should States Jobs Lasts Lost President Economy Records Week Economic Office India China President Bush Ohio Thailand

Author:Jay Leno

“India has probably lost its position to China as the world's workshop. At the same time it has the power to be ahead of China when it comes to knowledge. Not that the Chinese are far behind. They will get there. But our challenge is to invest sufficiently in education.”

World Lost Challenges Behinds Position India China Chinese Workshops

Author:Ratan Tata

“India saw from the beginning, - and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, - that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.”

Reason Light Age Lost Saws Ignorance India Insight Sole Sri Lanka Age Of Reason Externalities

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.”

Lost Wonder Wonderful India British Andrew

Author:Moss Hart

“According to the World Health Organization, an average of Rs. 6500 per person was lost in India due to lack of cleanliness and hygiene. Swachh Bharat would make a significant impact on public health and in safeguarding income of the poor, ultimately contributing to the national economy.”

“Two races we've lost which I'm genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.”

Two Lost Race India Upset Turkeys

Author:Bernie Ecclestone

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”

Source: Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems

“From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.”

Lost Civilization India Islam Brilliant Contrary Islamic Spain Christendom

Book:History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“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.”

“Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive privileges of caste, by opening up to discussion the inestimable treasures which were hidden away in the hands of a very few who have even lost the use of them. Half has been stolen and lost; and the other half which remains is in the hands of men who, like dogs in the manger, do not eat themselves and will not allow others to do so.”

“Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.”

Men Heart Hands Would Be Political Fighting Lost Water Leader Air Sweet Lows India Tongue Silly Indian Straws Rogues Rascals Squabbles

Author:Winston Churchill