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Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
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
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
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force 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
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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Cold Faith Fear Fight Generosity Logic Reason Trust Weapon
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
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Avoid Danger Distance People
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Country Fear Mental People Slave
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Home Identity Myself Place
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
Great causes and little men go ill together.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Citizenship Country Service

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