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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
May

"H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler.""

Men Hands May
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
May

"And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands."

May Reason Claims
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
May

"Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not."

May Atheism Bombay
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
May

"What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise."

May God Debt
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
May

"Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent."

May Use Natural
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
May

"Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die."

May Sacrifice Bravery
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
May

"The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be."

Mean Fighting May
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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
May

"I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought."

May Cases Makers
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J. Stalin Political Leader
May

"American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other."

May Democracy Sides
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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
May

"A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours."

Thinking May Different
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
May

"If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain."

May Prayer Infinite Intelligence
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