You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRULoyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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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 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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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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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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