Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• High
• Man
• Happiness
• Lies
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• Contentment

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• Self-doubt kills talent.

  

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• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

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• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

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• I do not live in the world of sobriety.

  

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• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  

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• One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.

  

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• If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

  

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• Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

  

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• Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?

  

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• Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Man