"Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian."
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"Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law."
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"A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen."
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"You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature."
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"Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse."
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"The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations."
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"My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth."
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"Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible."
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"In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists."
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"My religion teaches me to love all equally."
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"The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable."
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"If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred."
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"It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint"
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"Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself."
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"A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him."
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"As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side."
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"The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love."
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"Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights."
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"What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is."
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"No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom."
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