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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Future Live Writing
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Mindset Restriction Spirit
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Failure Ourselves Weakness
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Advice Generosity Job Yourself
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Achievement Action Feeling Oneself Time
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Agriculture Food Wait
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Life Science Value
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Care Children Citizenship Flower Future Love Nation
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Each Other Men People Thinking Word
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Greatness Need Revolution Right

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