It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUCrises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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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.
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Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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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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