"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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"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
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"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure."
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"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves."
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"Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences."
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"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."
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"What we really are matters more than what other people think of us."
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"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."
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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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"By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth."
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"Play the hand you're dealt."
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"A man who is afraid will do anything."
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"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."
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"You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women."
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"The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds."
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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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"A country is known by the way it treats its animals"
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"I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul."
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"Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself."
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"It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science."
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