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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
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
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
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 policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Greatness Policy Risk Wisdom
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
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
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
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
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble
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
To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Eduaction Life Need Success Yourself
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
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
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
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Accident Born Education Identity Myself View
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
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
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
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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Inspirational Past Present
For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it’s great books, the “Upnishads,” and the “Bhagavad Gita.”
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Beginning Books Religion Thinking Time World

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