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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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Peace People
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
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
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal 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
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
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
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
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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Myself Place Reality Theory
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself

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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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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