Great causes and little men go ill together.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUPeople avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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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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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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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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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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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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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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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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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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