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Quotes by Leader
"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes."
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"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."
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"If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters."
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"In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel."
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"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."
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"How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?"
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"For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election."
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"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."
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"The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself."
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"Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will."
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"When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism."
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"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
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"All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions."
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"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."
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"The flow of Ganga adds momentum to the economic pace of the country. Bhagirath brought down the river Ganga for us, but to save it, we need crores of Bhagiraths. Cleaning Ganga cannot be successful without 'Jan Bhagidari'. We all will have to become agents of change to achieve cleanliness."
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"And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment."
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"Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within."
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"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers."
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"But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end."
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"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
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"It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them."
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"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
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"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."
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"Gone are the days when it was enough to urge the workers of the world to unite. Now, it is the time to say- Shramiks, unite the world!"
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"My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves."
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"There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics."
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"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."
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"We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself."
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"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."
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"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
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"I am dying with the help of too many physicians."
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"It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails."
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