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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

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
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