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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Animal Name Religion Sacrifice Thinking
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
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
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
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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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
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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Beginning Myself Old Problem
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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History Human Mindset Spirit Struggle
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
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
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
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
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Danger Person Quiet
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
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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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
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
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
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Ambition Beyond Eyes Greatness Man Suffering Tears
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Commitment Crime Greatness Kill Performance Possible Religion
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction

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