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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.
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Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
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
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Danger Person Quiet
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
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
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.
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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
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
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Life Problem Science
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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Change Destiny Freedom Life World
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Accident Born Education Identity Myself View
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Change Human Life

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