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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

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

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

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

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adv...

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play ...

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism the way you play it...

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It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiterac...

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism the way you play it is free will...

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

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

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an...

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

The basic fact of today is the tremendous.

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

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

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere,...

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Ignorance is always afraid of change.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passionand abandon of youth, and the...

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The Discovery of India

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of...

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The Discovery of India

Our lives are encumbered with the dead wood of this past; all that is dead and has served its purpos...

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The Discovery of India

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I ...

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An Autobiography: Toward Freedom

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

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

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She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscr...

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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adv...

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A man who is afraid will do anything.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best ad...

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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me ...

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

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of sou...

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I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life becau...

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Former Prime Minister of India

Born: 1889-11-14

Died: 1964-05-27

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was a central figure in India during the middle-third of the 20th-century. He was a principal leader of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, Nehru served as the country's prime minister for 17 years.More