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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. So I think I have perhaps learned that it is better to make the most of what you are than to rue yourself into exhaustion because you are not someone else.

Jawaharial Nehru (1889-1964) Indian politician
(Attributed)

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 true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul. To attain this I would put priests to work, also, and turn the temples into schools.

Jawaharial Nehru (1889-1964) Indian politician
Quoted in Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharial Nehru (1889-1964) Indian politician
Quoted in the London Observer (29 Aug 1954)