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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Economy Force Poor Rich
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
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
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
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
The Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
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Future Myself Ocean Past Present River
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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Advice Generosity Job Yourself
To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Eduaction Life Need Success Yourself
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
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
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
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
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life Oneself
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
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
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
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
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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Fundamental Goodness Human Life Rule
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
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
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

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