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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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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
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
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
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
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Future Live Writing
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Change Human Life
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
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
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
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
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
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
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
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
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
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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
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
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Encouragement Greatness Ideas Nation Thinking
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
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value

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