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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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
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
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
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 future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
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
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
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
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
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
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value

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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