Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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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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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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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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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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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
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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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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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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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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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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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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 to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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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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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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