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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
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 basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Change Human Life
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
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Commitment Crime Greatness Kill Performance Possible Religion
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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Extraordinary Prison Value View Walk
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Danger Person Quiet
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
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
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
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
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
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

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

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