"True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town."
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"Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering."
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"No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow."
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"A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance."
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"God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them."
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"I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity."
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"I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status."
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"My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty."
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"Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?"
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"I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it."
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"Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal."
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"The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self."
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"I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage"
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"Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth."
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"One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman."
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"Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean."
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"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."
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"Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable."
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