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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

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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History Human Mindset Spirit Struggle
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
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
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
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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Danger Person Quiet
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
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
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness

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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