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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
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
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Commitment Crime Greatness Kill Performance Possible Religion
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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Beginning Myself Old Problem
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
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
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
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
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
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 future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait

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