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“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

World Long Soul Ends Moments Age Nations Hours Sleep Powerful Steps India Awake Strokes Midnight Utterance India Independence Day Indian Independence Day

Book:Sept. 1964-May 1949

Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949

“We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?”

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

“Many state governments have launched innovative steps such as Ladli Laxmi scheme of Madhya Pradesh, PDS reform scheme of Chattisgarh, computerization of land records in Karnataka, free computers to students passing 10th standard exams, pollution control efforts in Himachal, power sector reforms in Rajasthan and Mumbai - Pune Expressway in Maharashta. These excellent innovative schemes are examples of good governance.”

“Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.”

Philosophy Goal Realizing Steps Taken India Concrete Governance Good Governance

Author:Narendra Modi

“If 125 crore people work together; India will move forward 125 crore steps.”

People Ifs Together Moving Powerful Steps India Moving Forward Working Together

Author:Narendra Modi

“A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction.”

Moving Steps Majors India Planning Setting Settings Reform Governance Transforming

Author:Narendra Modi

“Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment.”

Hands Form Nations Growth Steps Youth Benefits India Increase Employment Lions Initiative Governance Manufacturing Make In India

Author:Narendra Modi

“Let us together serve the Nation. If each citizen takes one step forward, the country takes 125 crore steps forward.”

Ifs Country Together Motivation Nations Steps Citizens India Steps Forward

Author:Narendra Modi

“There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.”

Way Grows Wealth Steps Economy Doubt Taxes India No Doubt Disparity Tax System

Author:Bill Gates

“In particular, recently Belgium has banned the sale of a cellphone to a 7-year-old. Turkey has banned ads and advertising to children. So has France for children under 12. India has bans in certain areas. In Bangalore, you cannot sell a cellphone to someone younger than 16. So in different parts of the world, they've taken different steps.”

World Years Children Different Certain Steps Taken Particular Areas India Sells Advertising France Ads Turkeys Bans Banned Belgium Cellphone Bangalore

Author:Devra Davis

“The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory”

“It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.”

World States Steps Weapons India Tables Including Israel Nuclear Russia Concrete Nuclear Weapons Definite Pakistan Disarmament Abolition India And Pakistan

Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.”

Said Reason Spirit Nations Difficult Animal Steps Blood Sea Appreciate India Worthy Reason Why Sentiments Animal Rights Ancestor Savages Brutes Wholesale

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda