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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

A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
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
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Action Mistake Ourselves Talk
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation
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
People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
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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Act Afraid Dare Success
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner
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

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.

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