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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
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
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Peace People
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
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Beginning Myself Old Problem
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
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
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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One Liner Worth
People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People

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