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

Jawaharlal Nehru

We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Encouragement Greatness Ideas Nation Thinking
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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
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Mindset Restriction Spirit
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
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
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
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
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 policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Freedom Game Hands Life Play Willing Yourself
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
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
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble

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