“Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. Life is not all logic, and those ends will have to be varied from time to time to fit in with it, but some end must always be clearly envisaged.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Autobiography (1936; 1949; 1958)

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

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