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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Ambition Beyond Eyes Greatness Man Suffering Tears
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Mindset Restriction Spirit
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Future Myself Ocean Past Present River
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Scare Stupidity
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
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Absence Mindset Nation Peace Relationship Soul War
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Commitment Crime Greatness Kill Performance Possible Religion
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Country Time Travel
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Direction End
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Freedom Justice Place
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Failure Ourselves Weakness
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
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Accident Born Education Identity Myself View
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Myself Rule
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Act Afraid Dare Success

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