“It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Every seeker has, at one time or another, to pass through a conflict of duties, a heart-churning.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Hence, we should not be attached even to a good cause. Only then will our means remain pure and our actions too.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self suffering.”
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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
“Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
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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
“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
