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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
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
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
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.
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Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
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
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Accident Born Education Identity Myself View
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Efficient Existence Material
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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Adventure Live Wonderful World
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
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.
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Greatness Need Revolution Right
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
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
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
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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Change Destiny Freedom Life World
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
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Mindset Restriction Spirit
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness

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