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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Danger Person Quiet
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Home Identity Myself Place
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Adventure End Eyes Inspirational Life Seek Wonderful World
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Myself Place Reality Theory
Play the hand you’re dealt.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Hands One Liner Play Yourself
A man who is afraid will do anything.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Destruction Existence Philosophy
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Attitude Enough Goodness
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Force Thinking
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Absence Mindset Peace War

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