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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smeel as sweet."
Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
"Patriotism is the best refuge of the scoundrel."
Samuel Johnson
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
Francis Bacon
It is excellent to love a giant's strength but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Shakespeare (Measure for Measure)
Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink.
S.T. Coleridge
It is strange but true, for truth is always strange.
Byron (Don Juan)
"Virtue is its own reward."
Cicero (De Fintibus)
Frailty, thy name is woman.
Shakespeare (Hamlet)
We don't fear to negotiate, but we don't negotiate out of fear.
JF Kennedy
Give us good mothers and I shall give you a good nation.
Napoleon
I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Pope
Generations to come, it may, will scarce believe, that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.
Albert Einstein
Goverment of the people, by the people, for the people.
Lincoln
East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet.
Rudyard Kipling
Swaraj is my birth right
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste of death but once.
Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
Where ignorance is bliss, it is a folly to be wise.
Grey
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
We are such stuffs dreams are made of, and and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Shakespeare (Tempest)
Only free men negotiate. I shall never negotiate while I am a prisoner.
Nelson Mandela
Truth and non-violence are my god.
Mahatma Gandhi
Let a hundred flowers bloom and a thousand schools of thought contend.
Mao Tse-tung
Jai Jawan, Jai Kissan!
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Eureka! Eureka!
Archimedes
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them!
Shakespeare (Twelfth NIght)
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Goldsmith
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely.
Lord Acton
Man is by nature, a political animal.
Aristotle
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
We have made a tryst with destiny.
Jawaharlal Nehru
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PB Shelly
Man does not live by bread alone.
Jesus Christ
Nothing is good or bad, thinking make it so.
Shakespeare (Hamlet)
Garibi hatao.
Indira Gandhi
Aram haram hai.
Nehru
Quit India!
Gandhiji
Jai Jawan, Jai Kissan, Jai Vigyan!
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
A thing of Beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Pope
Beauty is truth, and truth, beauty. That is all ye know, and that is all you need to know.
Keats (Ode on a grecian Urn)
All the world's a stage and all the men merely players.
Shakespeare (As you like it)
Some books are to be tasted, some are to be swallowed, and other to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
Better to Reign in hell than to serve in Heaven.
John Milton (Paradise Lost)
The child is the father of the man.
Wordsworth (My Heart Leaps up)
A single step for man, a giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
Dilli chalao.
Subhash Chandra Bose
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
Shakespeare (Hamlet)
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