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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
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
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation
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.
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Future Myself Ocean Past Present River
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
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
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
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
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Greatness Need Revolution Right
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
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
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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Cold Faith Fear Fight Generosity Logic Reason Trust Weapon
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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Advice Generosity Job Yourself
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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History Victory Writing
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
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
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
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
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
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
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember

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