Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUWithout peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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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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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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