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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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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Nehru
Chacha Nehru
Pandit Nehru
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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.
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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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I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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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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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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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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Play the hand you're dealt.
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Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective victory is not the objective you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
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