"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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"That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge."
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"The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world."
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"Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side."
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"If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it."
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"The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel."
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"The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me."
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"Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity."
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"I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel."
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"The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship."
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"If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed."
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"I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India."
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"Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence."
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"India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel."
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"Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel."
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"A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour."
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