Play the hand you’re dealt.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUCulture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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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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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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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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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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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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