"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

Gandhi, Mahatma on law and lawyers
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"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

Gandhi, Mahatma on jesus christ
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

Gandhi, Mahatma on indolence
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

Gandhi, Mahatma on idleness
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Hatred can be overcome only by love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on hatred
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God."

Gandhi, Mahatma on god
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"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"All men practice the actor's art."

Petron on acting and actors   

"Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil."

Fields, W. C. on acting and actors   

"If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same."

Lincoln, Abraham on elections
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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on persuasion
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"The tongue can paint what the eye can't see."

Proverb, Chinese on persuasion
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"Your friend has a friend; don't tell him."

Proverb, Chinese on gossip
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"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."

Emery, Stewart on ask
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"You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it."

Angelis, Barbara De on ask
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Angelis, Barbara De on adversity
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."

Gandhi, Mahatma on peace
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on nonviolence
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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

Gandhi, Mahatma on marriage
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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