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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Commitment Crime Greatness Kill Performance Possible Religion
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Failure Ourselves Weakness
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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Advice Generosity Job Yourself
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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Myself Place Reality Theory
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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Choice Face Problem
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it’s great books, the “Upnishads,” and the “Bhagavad Gita.”
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Beginning Books Religion Thinking Time World
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Humble Thinking Truth

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