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Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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Act Afraid Dare Success
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
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Animal Name Religion Sacrifice Thinking
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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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Act Courage Ideal Life Oneself
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
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
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
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
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
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
I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
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
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself
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
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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Economy Force Poor Rich
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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Change Destiny Freedom Life World
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Future Live Writing

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