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

Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Greatness Loyalty Recognition
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
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
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
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
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Future Live Writing
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
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
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
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
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
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
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
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.
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Beginning Myself Old Problem
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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One Liner Worth
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
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 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
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
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
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
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
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction

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