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Jawaharlal Nehru
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: November 14
Died: 1964
Died: May 27
Autobiographer
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Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
Statesperson
Trade Unionist
Writer
Prayag
Panditji
Nehru
Chacha Nehru
Pandit Nehru
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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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I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
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We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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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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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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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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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.
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It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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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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India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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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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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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