To be successful in life what you need is education.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUHistory 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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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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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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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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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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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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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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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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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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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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