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Those who do monumental work don't need monuments.
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I have to be cautious, but caution also has its own adventure.
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If you give the royalties from your book, I shall give the land.
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I was tempted by Shankar bhagwan. He too has spondylitis but uses a cobra as a brace.
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The halo of Fr. Damian was before me,[he said] and I knew that Sadhana would nurse me.
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…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.
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You have come a long way to talk to me, but I have a surprise for you: I have worked out most of the details already....
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When leprosy patients touched the soil, they transformed it into gold, but the politicians did that and made it into dirt.
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I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.
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The condition of the tribals is worse than those inflicted with leprosy. Purna swaraj can only be possible when the poorest of the poor is uplifted.
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There is a certain callousness in families like mine. They put up strong barriers so as not to see the misery in the world outside and I rebelled against it.
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A client would admit that he had committed rape, and I was expected to obtain an acquittal. And worse still, when I succeeded, I was expected to attend the celebration party.
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Those who indulge in history cannot create new history. You cannot legislate national integration unless political work is done constructively and there is a lifestyle for life.
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I was charging fifty rupees for arguing for fifteen minutes while a labourer was getting only three-quarters of a Rupee for twelve hours of toil. That was what was eating into me.
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Our governance is by a gerontocracy. This cataract of history can only be removed by youth. In this common man's century, only the common man can change the profile of this country.
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I, who had never had planted single seed in the estate was expected to enjoy the comfort of a beautiful farm house, while those who had toiled there all their lives had only the meanest hovels.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Baba Amte
Born:
December 26, 1914
Died:
February 9, 2008
(aged 93)
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