Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUTime is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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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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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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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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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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.
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Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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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.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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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.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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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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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.
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Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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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.
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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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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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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.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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