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The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with. ”
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ”
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ”
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level. ”
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ”
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ”
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen. ”
A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate economic inequality. ”
If India moves towards 100 percent LED lighting, we will reduce almost 79 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This will also reduce the electricity bills of people. ”
India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal. ”