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
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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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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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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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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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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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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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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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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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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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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