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Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner
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
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
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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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
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
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Commitment Crime Greatness Kill Performance Possible Religion
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
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Achievement Action Feeling Oneself Time
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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Change Destiny Freedom Life World
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
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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Beginning Books Religion Thinking Time World
Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation
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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel

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