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

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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Fundamental Goodness Human Life Rule
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
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
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
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
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
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
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
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
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

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