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Life is immense, comprehensive and dynamic. It includes spirit and matter and idealism and pragmatism and rotates round the axis of the noble and the ignoble. Life strives for higher ends. It is a mission, a service, and finally worship.

— Zakir Hussain Uniqueness of Zakir Husain and His Contributions (1997)

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I have after years of thinking on the subject come to the conviction that work is the only instrument of effective education. It may sometimes be manual work, at others, non-manual work.

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For God’s sake, reform and improve the politics of our country.

Quest for Truth (1999)

Education should be able to distinguish between the heritage that helps and that heritage hampers the tradition that undermines and the tradition that fortifies.

Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today.

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Our sweat is the answer to all our problems, and that the tiller, the artisan and the teacher are the three agents who feed the body, mind and soul.

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