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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Humble Thinking Truth
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
For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it’s great books, the “Upnishads,” and the “Bhagavad Gita.”
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Beginning Books Religion Thinking Time World
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
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
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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Act Courage Ideal Life Oneself
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
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
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
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
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
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
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
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

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