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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: 91
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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In a world in which technology is changing at such a fast pace, where demand conditions change very fast, we need to look at a more innovative mechanism to cut down on this rigmarole of many tiers of decision-making processes.
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As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
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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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[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.
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With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.
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I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.
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Life is never free of contradictions
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The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.
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A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.
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I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.
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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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The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.
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If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.
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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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I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about clash of civilizations.
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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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If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.
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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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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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