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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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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 think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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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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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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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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Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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 now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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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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I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
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At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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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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