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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Future Live Writing
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
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
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
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
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
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
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
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
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
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
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
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
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Accident Born Education Identity Myself View
To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Eduaction Life Need Success Yourself
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
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
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
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Life Problem Science

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