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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 future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Encouragement Greatness Ideas Nation Thinking
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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Choice Face Problem
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Animal Name Religion Sacrifice Thinking
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
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
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
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Peace People
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
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
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
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
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
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Easy Escape Run
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
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
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
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
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.
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Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place

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