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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
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
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Humble Thinking Truth
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force 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
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Freedom Game Hands Life Play Willing Yourself
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Easy Escape Run
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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Cold Faith Fear Fight Generosity Logic Reason Trust Weapon
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
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
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

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