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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Eduaction Life Need Success Yourself
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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History Victory Writing
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Greatness Loyalty Recognition
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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Change Destiny Freedom Life World
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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Extraordinary Prison Value View Walk

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