The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere.

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Jawaharlal Nehru
India's first Prime Minister and Gandhi's heir (1889-1964). A Cambridge-trained Brahmin barrister, he spent ten years in colonial jail, won independence in 1947, and built India's democracy and non-aligned policy.
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Jawaharlal Nehru's Other Quotes
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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