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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUFailure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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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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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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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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Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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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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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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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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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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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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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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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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Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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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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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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