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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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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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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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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.
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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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