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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: November 14
Died: 1964
Died: May 27
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Former Prime Minister Of India
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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.
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When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere
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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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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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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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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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The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.
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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.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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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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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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