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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 country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Animal Name Religion Sacrifice Thinking
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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Act Afraid Dare Success
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
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
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
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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Adventure End Eyes Inspirational Life Seek Wonderful World
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
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
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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One Liner Worth
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
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Efficient Existence Material
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
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
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
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
People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
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

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