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Jawaharlal Nehru

Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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Extraordinary Prison Value View Walk
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
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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Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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Inspirational Past Present
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
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Animal Name Religion Sacrifice Thinking
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
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
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
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Efficient Existence Material
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Absence Mindset Nation Peace Relationship Soul War
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Encouragement Greatness Ideas Nation Thinking
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
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
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Accident Born Education Identity Myself View
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
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
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
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace

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