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

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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
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
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Achievement Action Feeling Oneself Time
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
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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Act Afraid Dare Success
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
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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Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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Change Destiny Freedom Life World
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Encouragement Greatness Ideas Nation Thinking
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life

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