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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
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
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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Advice Generosity Job Yourself
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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Myself Place Reality Theory
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
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
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
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
Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Life Problem Science
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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Choice Face Problem

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