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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Action Mistake Ourselves Talk
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
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 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
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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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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History Victory Writing
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
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
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
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
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
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life Oneself
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

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