"When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household."
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"The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul."
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"The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel."
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"The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor."
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"The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water."
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"I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel."
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"The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India."
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"My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books."
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"I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends."
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"Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar."
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"Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience."
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"The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel."
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"Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them."
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"Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever."
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"Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face."
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"These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?"
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