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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
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
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
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
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
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
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
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Change Human Life
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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History Human Mindset Spirit Struggle
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
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
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
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
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
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

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