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All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Jawaharlal Nehru
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: November 14
Died: 1964
Died: May 27
Autobiographer
Barrister
Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
Statesperson
Trade Unionist
Writer
Prayag
Panditji
Nehru
Chacha Nehru
Pandit Nehru
Live
Longer
Closely
World
Imagine
Brotherhood
Nations
Peoples
Freedom
Isolated
Knit
Peace
Disaster
Indivisible
Also
Diversity
Split
Together
Apart
Fragments
Today
Prosperity
Splits

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