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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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Extraordinary Prison Value View Walk
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
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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
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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Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Failure Ourselves Weakness
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
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
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
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
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
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
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
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
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
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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Beginning Books Religion Thinking Time World
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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Inspirational Past Present
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
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Future Live Writing
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Humble Thinking Truth

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