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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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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Myself Place Reality Theory
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
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Change Human Life
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation
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
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Economy Force Poor Rich
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
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Achievement Action Feeling Oneself Time
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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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.
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Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution

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