"A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground."
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"What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can."
"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history."
"A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death."
"Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma."
"The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?"
"Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice."
"Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it."
"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."
"Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence."
"One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment."
"He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love."
"The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation."
"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms."
"What does your heart tell you?"
"It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation."
"Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes."
"You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop."
"The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved his fellows. But whether he knows it or whether he does not know it, whether he hears it or whether he does not hear it, his love for his is without end, and mankind cease not to repose therein."
"Success to me does not mean money."