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India has a rich tradition of wisdome which lits our day lifts our spirits. However, our digital space is devoid of this treasure trove. Is it not an irony that a country that has abundant digital resources can not bring its own intellectual and spiritual wealth on one digital platform?
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I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.
Baba Amte

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Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.
B R Ambedkar
The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.
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I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Education is an all round drawing out of the best in the child and man: body, mind and spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a matter of choices. Live well, it won't easily go wrong. You can't change your situations, you can change your response.
Gaur Gopal Das
There is a degree of freedom that creates apirations.
Anand Mahindra
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
Vladimir Lenin
Praising somebody in their presence and then backbiting are worse than decrying virtue and doing evils.
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To explain God merely after reading the scriptures is explaining to a person the city of Banaras after seeing it only on a map.
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To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
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The gain of democracy is the security of the individual's life, liberty and goods from the caprices of the tyrant one or the selfish one, its evil in the decline of greatness in humanity.
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There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed, or a man who is always praised.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx
Religion is for man and not man for religion.
B R Ambedkar
Humility in speech cannot be attained by men who never listen to the discourse of the wise.
Thirukkural
If you see the soul in every human being, you see truly. If you see immortality in the heart of every mortal being, you see truly.
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One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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Annonymous
My success will not depend on what A or B thinks of me. My success is what I make of it.
Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha
I realised, in all humility, that choosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other options.
Dr V Kurien
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
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Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Forgivenss frees the soul and opens the doors to inner peace.
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An effective leader is able to put himself in others' shoes and see things from their point of view.
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The artist is a lover of nature. Therefore he is her slave and her master.
Rabindranath Tagore
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
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Any action that takes us higher is a good action and is our duty.
R K Murti
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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Anger is great vice. So too is pride. Together they can destroy common sense.
Mahabharata
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx
Opportunism has shaken the confidence of People in Poltics.
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Talent accompanies with good attitude makes one happliy malleable.
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No matter how high the eagle flies its gaze is always on the ground.
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A man must not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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Mother Teresa
The appearance of a seed is in direct contradiction to its true nature.
Rabindranath Tagore
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B K Shivani
 Is this democracy? All have come together to make money. 
Anna Hazare
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Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
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Nobody respects an empty pocket.
Proverb
Too much honesty is not a good thing. Honest people get screwed first and straight trees are cut first.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept always in the tide of Time.
Mahatma Gandhi
For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.
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Do not be satisfied with stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi
The most important guru mantra is to never reveal your secrets to anyone. It will destroy you.
Chanakya
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Ramkrishna Paramhansa
The whole universe is to us a writing of the infinte in the language of the finite.
Swami Vivekananda
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Anna Hazare
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Stephen Hawking
We can, We must.
Swami Chinmayananda
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Dwayne Johnson
I believe in metrics rather than rhetoric. Articulation is not accomplishment.
Narayan Murthy
We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
You can't connect the dots looking forward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life and karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
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Mahesh Yogi
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Sonam Wangchuk
If there is strength in the public, they shall get whatever they need.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
A snake knows more about what is happening around it than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip, only direct perception.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
One must do noble deeds without delay, for death may come anytime.
Thirukkural
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Nelson Mandela
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Sai Baba
All lamps are not real lamps. To the great, the lamp of truth alone is the lamp.
Thirukkural
Even a good deed may go wrong when it is not done befitting the nature and disposition of men.
Thirukkural
Those with untiring and unfailing efforts will conquer even the unyielding fate.
Thirukkural
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Baba Amte
When we have control over our passions, we shall succeed.
Swami Virajananda
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
Never let the things you want, make you forget the things you have. There is always something to be thankful for.
Annonymous
The forces in capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and poor poorer.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Strength lies not in unrestrained behaviour but in well regulated action.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
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Thirukkural
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
Good fortuen enquires and enters the path of a person who has abundant zeal.
Thirukkural
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M S Swaminathan
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Karl Marx
A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.
Coco Chanel
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George Washington
Men of righteous conduct (aacharan) never utter evil words even by a slip of the tongue.
Thirukkural
With every breath I plant the seeds of devotion. I am a farmer of the heart.
Rumi
Everything changes. In the present lie the seeds of the future. Have the seeds been truly sown? Are they the seeds of noble and straight growing trees? If the proper seeds are there, the harvest is sure.
Pupul Jaykar
Respect, recognition and reward flow out of performance.
Narayan Murthy
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto Von Bismarck
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawahar Lal Nehru

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