- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I went to the Planning Commission was when it was under KC Pant, a long time ago. Since then I have been back there many, many times to the point where the many people who seem to spend their lives sitting outside the various offices and even the patches of grime in the hallways and stairwells began to look familiar.
- Nov 07, 2020
If people don't want blue-collar work, our labour costs will remain high and our competitiveness low.
- Decisiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people's concerns.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of getting from home to the metro, BRT or bus stop makes many people take their cars to work. Why not start a fleet of electric buses that just circle through neighbourhoods connecting them to the various public transport hubs?
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I went to Harvard and I got exposed to American work habits. I didn't even realise for a while that I was behind. I kind of had the illusion that I was understanding things. But people worked so hard and the thing I learnt first in America was that people work incredibly hard.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have been as willing.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
- Different Countries
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020