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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
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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Future Myself Ocean Past Present River
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
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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Advice Generosity Job Yourself
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
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
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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Choice Face Problem
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth

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