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If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists. . . . Most of these people are incapable of communicating their knowledge, but those who can communicate it are novelists. They are good novelists precisely because they are good psychologists.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Social service that savours of patronage is not service.

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

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