Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThere is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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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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Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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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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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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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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