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Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.

— Subhas Chandra Bose An Indian pilgrim: an unfinished autobiography (1997)

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One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

You will readily understand my mental condition as I stand on the threshold of what the man-in-the-street would call a promising career.

It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.

Give me blood and I will give you freedom.

It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!

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