Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to
ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them.

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Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was a central figure in India during the middle-third of the 20th-century. He was a principal leader of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, Nehru served as the country's prime minister for 17 years.

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Native Name: जवाहरलाल नेहरू
Alternative Names: Panditji • Nehru • Chacha Nehru • Pandit Nehru • Jawaharlal Motilal Nehru
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Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action — that is life.
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