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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. - [Leaders] A theory must be tempered with reality. - [Theories] Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. - [Action] Citizenship consists in the service of the country. - [Citizenship] Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. - [Crisis] Every little thing counts in a crisis. - [Importance] Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. - [Facts] Great causes and little men go ill together. - [Cause] Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. - [Work] No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded. - [Dogma] Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. - [Efficiency] The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds. - [Art] The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science. - [Future : Science] The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. - [Argument] Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. - [Defeat] You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. - [History] 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, of 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. - Proceedings of the National Institute of Science of India (27A (196): 564) [Science]
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