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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

The Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
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Future Myself Ocean Past Present River
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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Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
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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Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
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
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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Extraordinary Prison Value View Walk
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Economy Force Poor Rich
The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
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Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Efficient Existence Material
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Easy Escape Run
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
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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Adventure End Eyes Inspirational Life Seek Wonderful World
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman 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
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
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
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Peace People

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