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Letter "I" » India
«In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing»
Author: Apollonius Tyanaeus
| Keywords:
adhered, adheres, adhering, cities, fixed, India, inhabiting, mortals, possessed, possessing
«I adore that pink! It's the navy blue of India!»
«In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India»
«I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living»
Author: James Cameron
(Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter)
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Magic
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balances, Bicycles, brooding, civil servant, civil servants, cost of living, descends, drift, homeward, hush, hushed, Hushing, India, Krishna, rim, rimmed, rims, servants, ten thousand
«My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.»
«In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife.»
Author: Spike Milligan
(Actor, Humorist)
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Caught in The Act, cow, eyesight, farmhand, India
«India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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Arabs, Buddha, communities, embodied, embodies, embodying, Europe, India, languages, Sanskrit, self government, the Buddha, village
«In religion, India is the only millionaire - the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined»
«India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
birthplace, cradle, grandmother, great grandmother, India, legend, materials, most-valuable, treasured
«In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
climate, consistent, disposed, Empire, Great Books, India, pondered, ponders, serene, spoke, unworthy
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