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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life Oneself
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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One Liner Worth
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
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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History Victory Writing
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
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
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.

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