"If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death."
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"What better book can there be than the book of humanity."
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"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."
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"There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else."
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"Think for tomorrow but act for today."
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"If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian."
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"Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong."
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it"
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"Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character."
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"For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics."
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"The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different."
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"Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate."
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"Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body."
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."
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"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
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"There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves."
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"There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed."
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"I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them."
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"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him."
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"Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest."
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