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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore that all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw

Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you. I can assert without fear of contradiction that the quality of the Indian mind is equal to the quality of any Teutonic, Nordic or Anglo-Saxon mind. What we lack is perhaps courage … We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun