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People 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

Jawaharlal Nehru

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
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
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
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Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
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
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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Fundamental Goodness Human Life Rule
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
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
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
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

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