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The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.

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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
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
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
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
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Action Mistake Ourselves Talk
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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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Act Courage Ideal Life Oneself
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
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

The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.

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The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.

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