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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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Commitment Crime Greatness Kill Performance Possible Religion
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Greatness Loyalty Recognition
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
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
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Greatness Need Revolution Right
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Fear Friendship Past Truth
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
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
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

Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Democracy Freedom Understand Worst

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