Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUFor 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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Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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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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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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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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The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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