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Quotes by Leader
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
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"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole."
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"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."
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"In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day."
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"I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!"
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"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
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"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."
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"When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever."
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"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."
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"I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts."
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
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"Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion."
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"What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?"
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"Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn't murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn't murder lie; it doesn't establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn't murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn't murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn't solve any problems."
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"Before (the NDA) came to power, there was an atmosphere of despair. Newspapers were filled with news of corruption. People had lost hope. But we changed the situation. And today, after two more years of our Government, I can say with certainty that there is hope not just in the people of this country, the trust of entire world has grown in India."
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"And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life."
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"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction."
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"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."
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"We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline."
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"Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up."
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"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment."
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