"The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons."

Source : Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.

J. R. D. Tata

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“May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.88, Cambridge University Press
“We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.”

Source : "The ESPYs: The Only Awards Show That Matters" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. July 16, 2015.
“I didn't want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them.”
“I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.”
“I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.”
“...In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since sugar consumption is only one of a number of indices of wealth, the same sort of association (to coronary disease) exists with fat consumption, cigarette smoking, cars...”

Source : John Yudkin (1972). “Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers”
“Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.”
“In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.”

Source : "Stephen Curry Talks About His Christian Faith in MVP Acceptance Speech" by Christine Thomasos, www.christianpost.com. May 6, 2015.

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