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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

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
The Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
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Future Myself Ocean Past Present River
Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Life Problem Science
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
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
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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Choice Face Problem
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
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
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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
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
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
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
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
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Easy Escape Run
To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Eduaction Life Need Success Yourself
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
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Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Change Human Life

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