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But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.
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The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.
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You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.
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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view.
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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.
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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
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Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
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An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.
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The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
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Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.
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Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.
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No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.
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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.
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My commitment is to truth not consistency.
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A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.