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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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Sanitation is more important than Independence.
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Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet.
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It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.
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India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
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Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
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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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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 hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
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Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
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Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.
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Love is the law of life.
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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
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A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.