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

Jawaharlal Nehru

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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History Victory Writing
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
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Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
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
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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Cold Faith Fear Fight Generosity Logic Reason Trust Weapon
Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Life Problem Science
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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Adventure Live Wonderful World
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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Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
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
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
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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Care Children Citizenship Flower Future Love Nation
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Action Mistake Ourselves Talk
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
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Humble Thinking Truth
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
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
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

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