The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUWe can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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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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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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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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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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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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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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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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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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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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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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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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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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What we need is a generation of peace.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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