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The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

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Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
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Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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