"A theory must be tempered with reality."
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"There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life."
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"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us."
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"Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage."
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"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
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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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"Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind."
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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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"The future has to be lived before it can be written about."
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"There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by."
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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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"Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated."
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"Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in."
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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."
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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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"When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities."
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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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"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly."
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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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"Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp."
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