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Democracies don't go to war.

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 91
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
Banker
Civil Servant
Economist
Politician
Prime Minister Of India
War
Democracies
Democracy

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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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China's influence is bound to rise.
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No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.
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Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.
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I sincerely hope that the difficulties that are there in Iraq and Iran can be resolved, that Iraq will see a new era of hope in which its people will enjoy a full sovereignty. And also the problems that there is with Iran can be resolved through dialogue through giving diplomacy a chance.
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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
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The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.
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70 percent of India's imports of oil and oil products are imported from abroad. There is uncertainty about supply. There is uncertainty about prices. And that hurts India's development.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.
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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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Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.
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