Geeta Rao Gupta quotes

“With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role to ensuring the economic and social well-being of their families, communities, nations and the global community.”
-- Geeta Rao Gupta

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“There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences.”
-- Geeta Rao Gupta

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“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

“I have the time needed to support the album and tour.”

“My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.”

“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”

“In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.”

Source : Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali (1994). “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)”, p.306, World Scientific

“To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.”

“Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.”

“I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

“...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”

“An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.”

Source : "Dictionary of Quotations (classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Ctesiphontem, 147, 1897.