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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

— Indira Gandhi

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A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

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)

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