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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
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
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
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
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
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
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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History Human Mindset Spirit Struggle
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
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
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
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
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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

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