Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
Quotes to Explore
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
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In that year 1865 John Muir offered to buy from his brother … a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.
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When you put all your eggs in one basket, you've got a problem.
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My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
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While the agreement provides a level of constraint on Iran's nuclear weapons program, it confers legitimacy on their nuclear threshold status, an unprecedented shift for a country with so many entanglements.
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Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
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As a child I wanted to become an architect.
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If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don’t think it would be around.
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I was so enchanted with the open possibilities and the power of being able to choose my part. Who was the child now? I decided I’d be a Japanese businessman because it would be less predictable. Even when I was alone, I was so filled with excitement and laughter at the thought of my task. This was joyful children’s play!
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We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufficiency.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.
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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
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I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
