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We Are Born Of Woman, We Are Conceived In The Womb Of Woman, We Are Engaged And Married To Woman. We Make Friendship With Woman And The Lineage Continued Because Of Woman. When One Woman Dies, We Take Another One, We Are Bound With The World Through Woman. Why Should We Talk Ill Of Her, Who Gives Birth To Kings? The Woman Is Born From Woman; There Is None Without Her. Only The One True Lord Is Without Woman

-Guru Nanak

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Guru Nanak

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We Are Born Of Woman, We Are Conceived In The Womb Of Woman, We Are Engaged And Married To Woman. We Make Friendship With Woman And The Lineage Continued Because Of Woman. When One Woman Dies, We Take Another One, We Are Bound With The World Through Woman. Why Should We Talk Ill Of Her, Who Gives Birth To Kings? The Woman Is Born From Woman; There Is None Without Her. Only The One True Lord Is Without Woman

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