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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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
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
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
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
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
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
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
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 purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Greatness Loyalty Recognition
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
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
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
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Absence Mindset Nation Peace Relationship Soul War
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
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
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
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service

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