Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education."
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Spinning
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner."
Jack Johnson
Musician
"Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot this world keeps spinning. And with each new day, I can feel a change in everything."
Edward Taylor
Poet, Clergyman
"Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete, thy holy word thy distaff make for me."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone."
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"A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead."
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"Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash."
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"The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all."
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"The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe."
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"If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel."
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"When there's someone who's dead and then someone does something that that person would not have liked, they say that that person is spinning in their grave. But I don't understand why they say that. Why is spinning the way that a corpse shows disapproval?"
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"If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake."
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"There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life."
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"The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour."
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"Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means."
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"Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty."
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"I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung."
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"The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life."
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"The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work."
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"Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers."
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"The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation."
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"My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these."
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"The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time."
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"The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj."
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"The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before."
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