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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThere is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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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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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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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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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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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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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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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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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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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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