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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

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
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India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
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Play the hand you're dealt.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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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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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.
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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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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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Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere
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