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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
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
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
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
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
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Care Children Citizenship Flower Future Love Nation
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
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
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
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Future Live Writing

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