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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
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
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
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
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Efficient Existence Material
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
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
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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Adventure Live Wonderful World
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
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
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Beginning Myself Old Problem
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Myself Place Reality Theory

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