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Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Adventure End Eyes Inspirational Life Seek Wonderful World
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Cold Faith Fear Fight Generosity Logic Reason Trust Weapon
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Efficient Existence Material
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Democracy End
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Act Courage Ideal Life
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

History Human Mindset Spirit Struggle
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Ambition Beyond Eyes Greatness Man Suffering Tears
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Inspirational Past Present

Those who boast are seldom the great.

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