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" I'm not an expert on the arms race. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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" Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in. "

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" India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports. "

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" My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild. "

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" Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. "

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