No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith
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  1. No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger! !

  2. To become truly human, one has to try an release oneself from the shackles of race, religion and nationality. The quantum of humanism one acquires is inevitably filtered when one limits oneself."- Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Kant Lecture, 20090)

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