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• 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.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Too Much, Remember

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal (1980). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Spiritual, Views, Foundation

  "A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture". Book by Sushama Londhe, 2008.

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

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  Truth, Humble, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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• The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

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  Running, Quiet, Danger

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Democracies Have, Justice, Diversity

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• The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

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  Virtue, Virtuous, Persons

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• Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Causes, Defeat, Prepared

  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 man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

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  Peace, Men, Order

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• Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

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  Past, Law, Evil

  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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• 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.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Hatred, Mind, Twists

  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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• There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Stupidity, Action

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• It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life Is, Clear, Incapable

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

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  Change, Life Changing, Pace

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1965). “Congressmen's Primer for Socialism”

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• Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Dream, Ashes

  Jawaharlal Nehru's address to the United Nations, August 28, 1954.

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

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  Motivational, Procrastination, Successful

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1960). “Freedom from Fear: Reflections on the Personality and Teachings of Gandhi”

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• Play the hand you're dealt.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Gratitude, Hands, Cards You're Dealt

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• Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Mind, Culture, Spirit

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1963). “Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches”

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• 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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  Ocean, Memorable, Past

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• At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

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  Powerful, Sleep, Long

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.

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  Religious, Ignorance, Fate

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• A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Change, Sleep, Destiny

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• It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

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  Advice, Trying, Suggestions

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

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• Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

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  Inspirational, Long, Giving

  Jawaharlal Nehru (2003). “The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru”

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• It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Running, Country, Science

  Jawaharlal Nehru, H. N. Sethna (1981). “Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979”

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• I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Home, East, Mixtures

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage

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