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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
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
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Care Children Citizenship Flower Future Love Nation
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Force Thinking
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
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
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Home Identity Myself Place
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Death Defeat Preparation
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Nation Woman Yourself
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Mind Spirit Spiritual
Great causes and little men go ill together.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry

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