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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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Myself Place Reality Theory
People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
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 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.
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Ambition Beyond Eyes Greatness Man Suffering Tears
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place
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
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
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Greatness Need Revolution Right
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace

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