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Quotes by Leader
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."
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"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot."
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"I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."
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"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."
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"Give water to the farmers of this country and see the wonders they can do. Through the Pradhanmantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana, we want to ensure that water reaches every village across the length and breadth of the country."
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"Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive."
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"To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's."
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"Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome."
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"Parliament has recently passed a new law on inland waterways which will enable the rapid development of this efficient mode of transport. This will increase the number of navigable waterways from 5 to 106."
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"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."
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"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."
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"We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return."
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"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
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"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."
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"Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform."
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"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
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"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
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"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
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"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."
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"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something."
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"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
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"May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you struggle with Christian methods and Christian weapons. Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
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"Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person."
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"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"
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"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."
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"I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more."
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"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."
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"Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they areworth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, thatperson isn't fit to live!"
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"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."
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"If you want to change the world, start with yourself."
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"To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics."
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"We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him."
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