“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“No one has attained his goal without action. Even men like Janaka attained salvation through action.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is my firm conviction that man need take no milk at all, beyond the mother’s milk that he takes as a baby. His diet should consist of nothing but sunbaked fruits and nuts.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. He becomes impatient and then gives vent to anger and begins to do unworthy things; he jumps from action to action never remaining faithful to any. He who broods over results is like a man given to objects of senses; he is ever distracted, he says goodbye to all scruples, everything is right in his estimation and he therefore resorts to means fair and foul to attain”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A moral life, without reference to religion, is like a house built upon sand. And religion, divorced from morality, is like “sounding brass, good only for making a noise and breaking heads.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Je dois dire qu'en dehors des cas où elle m'exposa au ridicule, cette timidité insurmontable n'a jamais tourné à mon désavantage. Bien au contraire, j'ai mis ce handicap à profit en apprenant à devenir concis.
Jadis je cherchais mes mots. Aujourd'hui je prends plaisir à en réduire le nombre.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
