“The terrible sacrifice offered to Kali in the name of religion enhanced my desire to know Bengali”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we are unmanly today, we are so, not because we do not know how to strike, but because we fear to die.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Human language can but imperfectly describe God’s ways.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Why, then, grieve — tatra ka paridevana — asks Shri Krishna. This is the great mystery of God. As a magician creates the illusion of a tree and destroys it, so God sports in endless ways and does not let us know the beginning and the end of his play. Why grieve over it?”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A person who believes in fighting and does not regard it as violence, though it is violence, is here being asked to kill.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
