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" Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site. "
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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" Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. "
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" All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector. "
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" Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. "
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" When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman. "
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" My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild. "
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" The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers. "
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" As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me. "
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" My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. "
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" An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka. "
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" Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. "
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" There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea. "
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" One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias. "
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" We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel. "
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" No sanction can stand against ignited minds. "
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" Developing nations want to become developed nations. "
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" When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself. "
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" When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations. "
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" It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams. "
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" Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world. "
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" When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives. "
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" Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms. "
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" Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11. "
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" Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? "
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" It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer. "
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" Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it. "
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