Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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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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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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The Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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