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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Jawaharlal Nehru

When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
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Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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Adventure Live Wonderful World
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
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
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
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
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
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Change Human Life
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
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry

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