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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Life Person Talk Virtue
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place
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
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
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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Act Courage Ideal Life
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
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
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
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 art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking

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