Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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To be honest, I don't care how it went in.
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Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.
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It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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If the Russians still adhered to the Greek Orthodox religion, if they had instituted parliamentary government, and if they had a completely free press which daily vituperated us, then - provided they still had armed forces as powerful as they have now - we should still hate them if they gave us ground for thinking them hostile.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
