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History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

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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Trade Unionist
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Prayag
Panditji
Nehru
Chacha Nehru
Pandit Nehru
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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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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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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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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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Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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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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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Play the hand you're dealt.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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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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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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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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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.
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