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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Be Yourself Opinion People Thinking
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Action Scare Stupidity
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
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
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Achievement Action Feeling Oneself Time
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Country Time Travel
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
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
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

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