There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUTheoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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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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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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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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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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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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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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