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

Jawaharlal Nehru

I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Humble Thinking Truth
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
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
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
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
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
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
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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Myself Place Reality Theory
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
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
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
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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Ambition Beyond Eyes Greatness Man Suffering Tears
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Efficient Existence Material
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
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
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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Change Destiny Freedom Life World
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

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