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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Act Courage Ideal Life
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Absence Mindset Nation Peace Relationship Soul War
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
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
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
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
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
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
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Change Human Life
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
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
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Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Advice Generosity Job Yourself

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