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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

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
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
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
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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Adventure Live Wonderful World
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
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
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
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
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
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
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Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
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
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
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
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Future Live Writing
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Failure Ourselves Weakness
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Greatness Need Revolution Right
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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One Liner Worth
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
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Efficient Existence Material
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
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
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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