Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• Self-Defense
• Permitted

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• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
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• I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.

  

  Larry Drake
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• This writing distinctly about the kite seems to be my destiny, because among the first recollections of my infancy, it seemed to me that, as I was in my cradle, a kite came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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• The secret to my success is persistence.

  

  Jinder Mahal
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• Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • House

• It's nice when little teams win.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Team
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• Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Important
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  • Creativity

• But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heart
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• A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Aids
  • Calculator
  • Not Need

• Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Situation
  • Movement
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• And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

  

  William Stafford
  • World
  • Reason
  • Knows

• It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but that comes very naturally to me. From the beginning, I never followed trends. If I was aware of them, I didn't care, for I believed as I do now, that rooms should be timeless and very personal. I don't set out to achieve a particular style. And I certainly don't have a 'look' - just a mishmash of everything that somehow, by instinct, usually turns out to be a warm imaginative, 'living room'.

  

  Sister Parish

• The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
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  • Heaven

• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Violence
  • Another

• Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nonviolence
  • Creed

• I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Permitted

• Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nonviolence
  • Self-Defense
  • Permitted