"Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love."
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"He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa."
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"It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God."
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"My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism."
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"The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty."
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"Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune."
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"Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root."
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"In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost."
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"If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said Yavanna, "and each contributes to the worth of the others. But the kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. And among these I hold trees dear. Long in the growing, swift shall they be in the felling, and unless they pay toll with fruit upon their bough little mourned in their passing. So I see in my thought, would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them!"
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"What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain."
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"The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light."
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"I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness."
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"Industry is the root of all ugliness."
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"He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil."
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"A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly."
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"I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel."
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"People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched."
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"Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going."
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"The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years."
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"These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you."
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