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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi
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Gandhi
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