"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

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

Gandhi, Mahatma on marriage
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vow
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"Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vow
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"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark on family
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"He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that."

Twain, Mark on flowers
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

Darwin, Charles R. on friends and friendship
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"I love fools experiments. I am always making them."

Darwin, Charles R. on mistakes   

"A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life."

Darwin, Charles R. on time
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vow
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"Morality is contraband in war."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

Gandhi, Mahatma on wisdom
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

Gandhi, Mahatma on adaptability
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"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

Gandhi, Mahatma on conflict
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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Gandhi, Mahatma on country
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"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"Cowards can never be moral."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on culture
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"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."

Gandhi, Mahatma on culture
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Darrow, Clarence on change
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