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• In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

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  Religious, Names, Evil

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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• You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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  Wall, History, Portraits

  Jawaharlal Nehru's statement to Nikita Khrushchev as quoted in The New York Post, April 1, 1959.

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• Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

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  Likes, Facts, Disappear

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.

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  Jobs, Giving, Advice

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1996). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: 1 April-15 July 1952”, Oxford University Press

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• 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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  Distance, Mean, People

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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• Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.

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  Years, Accomplish, Feels

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• A man who is afraid will do anything.

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  Fear, Men

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1951). “The story of the world: a brief account of the early days of the earth as told in letters to his daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru”

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• We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

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  People, Nations, Narrow Mindedness

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• I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

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  Sacrifice, Animal, Thinking

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• No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

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  Country, People, Progress

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda;general Editor: S. Gopal”

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• Great causes and little men go ill together.

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  Men, Together, Causes

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

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  Mean, Giving, Weakness

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

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  Evil, Poison, Grows

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

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  Age, Aging, Problem

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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• Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

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  Faith, Fear, Fighting

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• A country is known by the way it treats its animals

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  Country, Animal, Way

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• To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

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  Inspirational, Hero, Training

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal, Uma Iyengar (2003). “The essential writings of Jawaharlal Nehru”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

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  Justice, Aggression, Threatened

  Jawaharlal Nehru (2006). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: 22 February-30 April 1957”, Oxford University Press

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• Those who boast are seldom the great.

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  Boast

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• A theory must be tempered with reality.

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  Science, Technology, Reality

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

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  Art, Mirrors, People

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

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  Enemy, Tactics, Liability

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• The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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  Rich, Poor, Force

  "Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) p. 295

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• Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

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  Thinking, Advantage, Pandit

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

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  Records

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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