“bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The manner in which the Gita has solved the problem is to my knowledge unique. The Gita says, ‘Do your allotted work but renounce its fruit — be detached and work — have no desire for reward and work.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You civilised fellows are all cowards. Great men never look at a person’s exterior. They think of his heart.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God. The endeavour to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realization.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”
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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