The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUMost things, except agriculture, can wait.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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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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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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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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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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