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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Future Live Writing
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
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
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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Extraordinary Prison Value View Walk
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
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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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Animal Country
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Peace People
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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Choice Face Problem

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