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Ghandi
1869-1948 (Age at death: 79 approx.)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, ; 2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha"�resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence"�which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: महातà¥à¤®à¤¾ mahÄtmÄ or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore), and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપà«, bÄpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience while an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, during the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he organized protests by peasants, farmers, and urban labourers concerning excessive land-tax and discrimination. After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, end untouchability, and increase economic self-reliance. Above all, he aimed to achieve Swaraj or the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led his followers in the Non-cooperation movement that protested the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (240 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930. Later he campaigned against the British to Quit India. Gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both South Africa and India.
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The 7 Deadly Sins are:/ Wealth without work/ Pleasure without conscience/ Knowledge without character/ Business without morality/ Science without humanity/ Worship without sacrifice/ Politics without principle |
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. |
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind. |
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. |
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The golden rule of conduct ... is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision. |
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The good man is the friend of all living things. |
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. |
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. |
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God. |
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states. |
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. |
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. |
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. |
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. |
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There is more to life than increasing its speed. |
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There is no god higher than truth. |
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There is no love where there is no will. |
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. |
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There is sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. |
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Those who know how to think need no teachers. |
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