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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
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
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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
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.
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Care Children Citizenship Flower Future Love Nation
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Failure Ourselves Weakness
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
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
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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Change Destiny Freedom Life World
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
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Beginning Myself Old Problem
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
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth

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