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Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.
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Untouchability is an error of long standing.
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Your life is your message.
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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
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I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
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Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
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The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
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Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.
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Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
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We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
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Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
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If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
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I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.