Self-contained Quotes
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No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
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A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.
