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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.”

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
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
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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Beginning Myself Old Problem
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
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Peace People
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
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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Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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Myself Place Reality Theory
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
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong

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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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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