"I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded."

-- Pranab Mukherjee

#Membership Quotes #Firsts Quotes #India Quotes

“A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.”

Source : Tristan Jones (1990). “One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single-Handed Sailing”, p.26, Sheridan House, Inc.
“It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trapped by their circumstances. But it's critical to trust your heart... it's personally taken me 20 years to get there myself.”
“I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.”
“Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.”
“Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend Americaâ€™s beauty -- from the oil spillers, the clear-cutters and the mountaintop removers. Deep patriots don't just visit the Statue of Liberty and send a postcard home to grandma. We defend the principles upon which that great monument was founded -- 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'”

Source : Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.228, Nation Books
“The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me”
“Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.”
“To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.”

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