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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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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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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 basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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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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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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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.
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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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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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...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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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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The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.
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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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Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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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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