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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.
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Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
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
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
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
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
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 only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
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
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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Fundamental Goodness Human Life Rule
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
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation

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