Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.
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One child is never enough for a monarch.
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The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
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Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
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Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
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She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter ъ, …
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He who doesn’t know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others’ successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.
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Without trying, I'm different.
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I live many lives at once.
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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.
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This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.