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

Jawaharlal Nehru

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
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
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
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
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Greatness Loyalty Recognition
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Freedom Game Hands Life Play Willing Yourself
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
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
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Mind Spirit Spiritual
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
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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Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
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
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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History Victory Writing
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself
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
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
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Agriculture Food Wait
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
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
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

History Human Mindset Spirit Struggle

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