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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
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
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Life Science Value
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Deep Law Remember
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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Extraordinary Prison Value View Walk
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Action Mistake Ourselves Talk
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
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
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
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Care Children Citizenship Flower Future Love Nation
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
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Absence Mindset Nation Peace Relationship Soul War

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