By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRULasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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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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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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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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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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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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