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Intellect Takes Us Along In The Battle Of Life To A Certain Limit, But At The Crucial Moment It Fails Us. Faith Transcends Reason. It Is When The Horizon Is The Darkest And Human Reason Is Beaten Down To The Ground That Faith Shines Brightest And Comes To Our Rescue.

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Intellect Takes Us Along In The Battle Of Life To A Certain Limit, But At The Crucial Moment It Fails Us. Faith Transcends Reason. It Is When The Horizon Is The Darkest And Human Reason Is Beaten Down To The Ground That Faith Shines Brightest And Comes To Our Rescue.

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Hate The Sin, Love The Sinner.

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Armed Conspiracies Against Something Satanic Is Like Matching Satans Against Satan.

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I Still Somehow Or Other Fancy That "my Philosophy" Represents The True Meaning Of The Teaching Of The Gita.

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Violence Begins With The Fork.

Every Widow I Have Met Has Recognized In The Wheel A Dear Forgotten Friend.

There Is No Beauty In The Finest Cloth If It Makes Hunger And Unhappiness.

I Believe In The Doctrine Of Non-violence As A Weapon Of The Weak. I Believe In The Doctrine Of Non-violence As A Weapon Of The Strongest. I Believe That A Man Is The Strongest Soldier For Daring To Die Unarmed.

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I Have Recognized That The Nation Has The Right, If It So Wills, To Vindicate Her Freedom Even By Actual Violence.

Knowledge And Devotion, To Be True, Have To Stand The Test Of Renunciation Of The Fruits Of Action.

The Hardest Metal Yields To Sufficient Heat. Even So Must The Hardest Heart Melt Before Sufficiency Of The Heat Of Non- Violence. And There Is No Limit To The Capacity Of Non-violence To Generate Heat.

Fear Of Disease Killed More Men Than Disease Itself.

Faith Is Like The Himalaya Mountains Which Cannot Possibly Change.

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No Matter How Insignificant The Thing You Have To Do, Do It As Well As You Can, Give It As Much Of Your Care And Attention As You Would Give To The Thing You Regard As Most Important. For It Will Be By Those Small Things That You Shall Be Judged.

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The Gita Has Become For Me The Key To The Scriptures Of The World.

Strictly Speaking, No Activity And No Industry Is Possible Without A Certain Amount Of Violence, No Matter How Little. Even The Very Process Of Living Is Impossible Without A Certain Amount Of Violence. What We Have To Do Is To Minimize It To The Greatest Extent Possible.

In The Application Of The Method Of Non-violence, One Must Believe In The Possibility Of Every Person, However Depraved, Being Reformed Under Humane And Skilled Treatment.

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