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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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 need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Easy Escape Run
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
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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History Human Mindset Spirit Struggle
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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Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Animal Name Religion Sacrifice Thinking
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
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Care Children Citizenship Flower Future Love Nation
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Life Problem Science
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
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

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