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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
M. K. Gandhi
Mohandas K Gandhi
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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
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The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.
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Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
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Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.
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