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Vote: | Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. |
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Vote: | English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. |
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Vote: | Humanity will require mega-missions for harnessing solar energy, drinking water from seawater through the desalination process and bringing minerals from other planets. In such a situation, the present reasons for conflict will become insignificant and unwarranted. |
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Vote: | I have this big library at home and my favourite poets are Milton, Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore. I write poetry too. |
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Vote: | If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. |
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Vote: | If we are not free, no one will respect us. |
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Vote: | In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. |
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Vote: | No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. |
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Vote: | We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. |
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Vote: | We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! |
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Vote: | We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. |
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Vote: | Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? |
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Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (born October 15, 1931, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India), usually referred to as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, is the President of India. He is also a notable Indian scientist and an engineer.
Biography Born in Dhanushkodi, in what is now Tamil Nadu, to a working class Muslim family, Kalam received his degree in aeronautical engineering from the Madras Institute of Technology in 1958. He joined India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) upon graduation to work on a failed hovercraft project. In 1962, he moved to the Indian Space Research Organisation, where his team successfully launched several satellites. He made a significant contribution as Project Director to develop India's first indigenous satellite launch vehicle (SLV-III) which successfully injected the Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit in July 1980.
In 1982, he returned to the DRDO as director, focusing on guided missiles. He was responsible for development and operationalisation of AGNI and PRITHVI missiles. This led to his nickname as India's "Missile-man".
In July 1992, he became scientific advisor to India's defence minister. As the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Indian government, he was holding the rank of a Cabinet Minister. His work led to the successful Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, which made India a nuclear weapon state.
Dr. Kalam has the unique dinstinction of receiving honorary doctorates from at least thirty universities, and India's three highest civilian honours - Padma Bhushan, in 1981; Padma Vibhushan, in 1990; and Bharat Ratna, in 1997.
On July 18, 2002, Kalam was elected by an overwhelming majority (upwards of 90%) as President of India and took office on July 25. He was nominated for the position by the then ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and the Congress Party, the primary opposition, concurred. His only opposition in the race was a leftist nominee, 87-year-old Lakshmi Sahgal, best known for having served under Subhash Chandra Bose in the Indian National Army in its campaign against the British during World War II.
Kalam observes strict personal discipline, practicing vegetarianism, teetotalism, and celibacy. It is believed that he reads both the Qur'an (the main holy text of his family's faith, Islam) and the Bhagavad Gita (the main holy text of India's majority religion, Hinduism), and many hope that he will be able to heal recent religious factionalism in India (especially in Gujarat). Kalam acknowledged in many places that he is following Tirukkural; in most of his speeches, he quotes at least one kural.
Politically, Kalam wants India to take a more assertive stance in international relations and sees his work on India's nuclear weapons program as a way to assert India's place as a future superpower.
He has written many inspirational books like his autobiography Wings of Fire aimed at encouraging the Indian youth. He strongly advocates an action plan to develop India into a knowledge superpower and into a developed nation by the year 2020. He takes active interest in the field of science and technology. He has proposed a research programme to increase intelligence using bio-implants. He is also a supporter of open source software over proprietary solutions and believes that the use of open source software on a large scale will let more people enjoy the benefits of information technology.
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