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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
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Mindset Restriction Spirit
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
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
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
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
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
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
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
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
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
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
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
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
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
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

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