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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

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Change Human Life
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
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
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 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
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
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
To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Eduaction Life Need Success Yourself
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life Oneself
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Peace People
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
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
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
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
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner

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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