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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Mistake Ourselves Talk
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
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Economy Force Poor Rich
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Inspirational Past Present
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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History Victory Writing
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Democracy Freedom Understand Worst

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