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Jawaharlal Nehru

I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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Fundamental Goodness Human Life Rule
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Humble Thinking Truth
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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Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
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
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Failure Ourselves Weakness
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
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
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Achievement Action Feeling Oneself Time
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself

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