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The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
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The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.
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Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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Faith is the function of the heart.
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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
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History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
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Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.
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The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
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Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.
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My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
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God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.
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It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
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Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.
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In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
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When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
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God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
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The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?
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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
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Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.