Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
