"It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?"

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Source : "Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Democrat, Poised To Be Elected First Hindu In Congress" by Omar Sacirbey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

Tulsi Gabbard

#Religious Quotes #Practice Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.”
“I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.”
“...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.”
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
“I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.”
“I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just donâ€™t know about.”
“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..”

Source : "The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road". Book by Paul Theroux, May 19, 2011.
“Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.”

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