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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
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
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
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
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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
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
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 only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Achievement Action Feeling Oneself Time
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
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Eduaction Life Need Success Yourself
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

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