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Jawaharlal Nehru

Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
The Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
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Future Myself Ocean Past Present River
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Greatness Loyalty Recognition
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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Act Afraid Dare Success
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Encouragement Greatness Ideas Nation Thinking
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
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
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
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
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
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Peace People
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Future Live 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
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
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.
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Advice Generosity Job Yourself
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
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Freedom Game Hands Life Play Willing Yourself
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Absence Mindset Nation Peace Relationship Soul War

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