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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

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This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

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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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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

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Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

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A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

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No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

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True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

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'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

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A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.

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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

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True morality consists, not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.

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Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

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The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

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Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

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Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

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I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

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