Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
Quotes to Explore
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Success, to me, is something new and vibrant.
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The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.
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Fashion is fun, but it's not that important, really, is it? It's important to have other intellectual and creative interests.
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People aren't really mean to me, but people say random things.
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No actor in the world started off at the top.
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Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.
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I'm never without Nerds and peanut M&M's. I have a sweet tooth! I have an unlimited supply on hand at home, but the candy packs in my purse are not for sharing.
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I'm not on Twitter.
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We cannot let ourselves be infantalized. We cannot let ourselves be stereotyped.
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The orators - and the despots - have the least power in their cities … since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.
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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.
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My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
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One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.
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Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.
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Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.
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I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.
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There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
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The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
