“Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The Unity of India : Collected Writings, 1937-1940 (1942), p. 94

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Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister … 1889–1964

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