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Given below are three quotations of philosophers. What do each of the quotations convey to you in the present context?\ A. "To feel for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and exercise our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature." Adam Smith (150 words, 10 marks)\ B. "Virtue lies in our power, and so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act." Aristotle (150 words, 10 marks)\ C. "I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing." Socrates(150 words,

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AAKASH—NextIASp.23
Ankit Agrawal—NextIASp.23
Ashutosh Mishra—NextIASp.24
Dommeti Vinay—NextIASp.23
Ramandeep Singh—NextIASp.24
Rambhrosh Saran—NextIASp.23
Sahil—NextIASp.24
Sanchit Sharma—NextIASp.22
Sidaq Singh—NextIASp.24
Sweta—NextIASp.24
Shubham Kumar Mahato—NextIASp.23
Banoth Laxmi Rachana—NextIASp.22
Nisar Dishant Amrutlal—NextIASp.23
Nisar Dishant—UnlockIASp.23
Darshana Singh Baghel—NextIASp.23
Aditya Talwar—NextIASp.25
Himanshu Singh Nimoria—NextIASp.25
Dommeti Vinay—NextIASp.23
Deeksha Chourasiya—NextIASp.24

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