“I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If physical fasting is not accompanied by mental fasting it is bound to end in hypocrisy and disaster.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In Hinduism, incarnation is ascribed to one who has performed some extraordinary service of mankind. All embodied life is in reality an incarnation of God, but it is not usual to consider every living being an incarnation. Future generations pay this homage to one who, in his own generation, has been extraordinarily religious in his conduct. I can see nothing wrong in this procedure;”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“people continued—regardless of all that leads man forward—to try to unite the incompatibles: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
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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
“Você nunca sabe que resultados virão da sua ação. Mas se você não fizer nada, não existirão resultados.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I had always heard the merchants say that truth was not possible in business. I did not think so then, nor do I now. Even today there are merchant friends who contend that truth is inconsistent with business. Business, they say, is a very practical affair, and truth a matter of religion; and they argue that practical affairs are one thing, while religion is quite another. Pure truth, they hold, is out of the question in business; one can speak it only as far as is suitable.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The only tyrant I accept is the still, small voice within me.”
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Mahatma Gandhi