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 NEHRUTheoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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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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The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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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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