Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
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There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.
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I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
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She was someone who was full of life ... She represented everything that was wonderful about Sweden and about Europe.
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One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.
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I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.
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The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.
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They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
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I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.
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I think the global community always has a ... has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.
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We would like to see humanitarian aid arriving without difficulty from the European Union ... the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should be able to enter and play their role.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.
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The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
