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"You have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter. If you do it for other causes, other reasons, it doesn't hold you for a long time. There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film."
"No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever."
"The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed."
"Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here."
"War is like government, a matter of tact."
"Nothing really matters; love is all we need."
"To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value."
"If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage."
"Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it."
"No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances."
"Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government."
"Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be."
"Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money."
"People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war."
"That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it."
"The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged."
"Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked."
"My fast is a matter between God and myself."
"My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself."
"It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows."
