So important to all of us, that if he did not exist — as Voltaire said of God — he would have to be invented. ... One of the most difficult men with whom I have ever had to deal." - Meaning and context.">
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Dean Acheson in a memorandum of a meeting with Nehru (12 October 1949) as quoted in "Indo-American Relations, 1947-50 : A Missed Opportunity in Asia" by Dennis Merrill, in Diplomatic History Vol. 11 No. 3 (July 1987); also in Nehru The Making of India (1989) by M. J. Akbar, and "Books of The Times; Biography of Nehru From a New Point of View" in The New York Times (16 May 1989)
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So important to all of us, that if he did not exist — as Voltaire said of God — he would have to be invented. ... One of the most difficult men with whom I have ever had to deal.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "So important to all of us, that if he did not exist — as Voltaire said of God — he would have to be invented. ... One of the most difficult men with whom I have ever had to deal." in the context of "Dean Acheson in a memorandum of a meeting with Nehru (12 October 1949) as quoted in "Indo-American Relations, 1947-50 : A Missed Opportunity in Asia" by Dennis Merrill, in Diplomatic History Vol. 11 No. 3 (July 1987); also in Nehru The Making of India (1989) by M. J. Akbar, and "Books of The Times; Biography of Nehru From a New Point of View" in The New York Times (16 May 1989)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

About Jawaharlal Nehru

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.