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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
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
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble
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 forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Economy Force Poor Rich
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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History Human Mindset Spirit Struggle
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
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

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