We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIndia cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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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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Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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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.
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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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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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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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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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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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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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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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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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