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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

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
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life Oneself
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
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
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
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Greatness Loyalty Recognition
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Beginning Myself Old Problem
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
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
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
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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History Victory Writing
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

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

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