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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.

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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
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
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
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
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
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
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
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
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
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
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Animal Name Religion Sacrifice Thinking
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
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
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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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Inspirational Past Present
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Beginning Myself Old Problem
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
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 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
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
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End

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