"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."
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"Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it."
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"I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God."
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"Man lives freely only by his readiness to die."
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"A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness."
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"Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable."
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"A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit."
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"You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere."
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"I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed."
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"Eye for eye and the world will go blind."
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."
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"We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries."
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"I call him religious who understands the suffering of others."
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"A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers."
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"Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state."
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"Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect."
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"A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience."
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"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any"
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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. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi"
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"True suffering does not know itself and never calculates."
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