It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIt is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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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.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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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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What we need is a generation of peace.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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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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