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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

Jawaharlal Nehru

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action Myself Right Satisfaction
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 really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
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
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
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Danger Person Quiet
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
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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One Liner Worth
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Fear Friendship Past Truth
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
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
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

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