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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
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
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
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
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
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force 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
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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Inspirational Past Present
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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
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Mindset Restriction Spirit
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
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
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

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