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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.
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Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner
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
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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One Liner Worth
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
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.
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Advice Generosity Job Yourself
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
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
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
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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Change Destiny Freedom Life 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
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
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
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Greatness Need Revolution Right
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
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
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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History Victory Writing
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity

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