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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Danger Person Quiet
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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Choice Face Problem
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Accident Born Education Identity Myself View
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
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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Act Afraid Dare Success
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Encouragement Greatness Ideas Nation Thinking
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Absence Mindset Nation Peace Relationship Soul War
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Greatness Need Revolution Right
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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Cold Faith Fear Fight Generosity Logic Reason Trust Weapon
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Peace People
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
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
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
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
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
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Animal Name Religion Sacrifice Thinking
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Action Mistake Ourselves Talk

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