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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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Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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Cold Faith Fear Fight Generosity Logic Reason Trust Weapon
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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Greatness Need Revolution Right
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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Freedom Game Hands Life Play Willing Yourself
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Humble Thinking Truth
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Encouragement Greatness Ideas Nation Thinking
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
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
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
Culture 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.
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Mindset Restriction Spirit
Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Life Problem Science
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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Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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Inspirational Past Present

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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