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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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Chacha Nehru
Pandit Nehru
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The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.
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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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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.
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Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.
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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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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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