Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.
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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions
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That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute
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