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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Danger Person Quiet
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Failure Ourselves Weakness
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
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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Freedom Game Hands Life Play Willing Yourself
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
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Ambition Beyond Eyes Greatness Man Suffering Tears
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
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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Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
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 now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
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
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
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
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Future Live Writing
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Commitment Crime Greatness Kill Performance Possible Religion
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself

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