"I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity."
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"The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him."
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"Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner."
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"Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service."
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"Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence."
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"India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel."
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"Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel."
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"A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour."
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"When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household."
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"The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul."
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"The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel."
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"The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor."
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"The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water."
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"I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel."
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"The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India."
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"For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth."
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"My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books."
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"I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends."
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"I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction."
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"I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips."
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