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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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Economy Force Poor Rich
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
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Freedom Game Hands Life Play Willing Yourself
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
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.
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Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
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
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
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
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
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner
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
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
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
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
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
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 art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True

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