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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 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
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
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
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
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
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
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
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
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
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
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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Choice Face Problem
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
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness

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

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