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India: As They Saw It

Quotable Quotes? Apollonius Tyanaeus, Will Durant, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw

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India: As They Saw It
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 In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but notadhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not fixed to them. Possessing everythingbut possessed by nothing.

Apollonius Tyanaeus

India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’slanguages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics,of the ideals embodied in Christianity... of self-government and democracy.India is the mother of us all.

Will Durant

In religion, India is the only millionaire.... The one land that all mendesire to see and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give thatglimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

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Mark Twain

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life.We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tenderexpressions which carry the mark of the Creator’s Hand. 

George Bernard Shaw 

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