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No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.
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Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior
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If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
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I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.
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In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.
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India's future lies in being an open society, an open polity, a functioning democracy respecting all fundamental human freedoms, accepting the rule of law and, at the same time, to emerge as a successful, internationally competitive market economy.
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I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.
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I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia.
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[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.
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I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.
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The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.
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I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.
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I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.
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We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.
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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.
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When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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