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Their argument was that no one comes here to sit with prayer beads, they all have ambitions and if they are not fulfilled, they go away.

— V. P. Singh

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I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

I have always been straight in my dealings, whether now or in yesteryear. There was no flip-flop

I had aimed at more internal competition but this government is inviting [[w:Multinationals|multinationals across the world.

Gandhi, Nehru and all did try to improve the situation. They tried to break a lot of economic and social stratifications. But inertia and the system prevail.

I do not know why everybody says that I am after power. If I were after power, I would have accepted it in 1996 when so many leaders came to my residence asking me to become prime minister.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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