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Jawaharlal Nehru

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
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
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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Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
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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Freedom Game Hands Life Play Willing Yourself
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
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
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
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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Adventure End Eyes Inspirational Life Seek Wonderful World
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
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
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
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Greatness Loyalty Recognition
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
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Accident Born Education Identity Myself View
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
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
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
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Economy Force Poor Rich
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

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