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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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
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
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
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
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
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
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
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 policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
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
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

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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