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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
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
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
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
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Beginning Myself Old Problem
The Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
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Future Myself Ocean Past Present River
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Achievement Action Feeling Oneself Time
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
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Eduaction Life Need Success Yourself
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Easy Escape Run
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
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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Advice Generosity Job Yourself
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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Myself Place Reality Theory
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
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
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Greatness Need Revolution Right
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Myself Rule
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
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
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
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom

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