Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — J. K. Rowling

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He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

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A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home. -Rodney Dangerfield

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The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

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Believe you can and you're halfway there. — Theodore Roosevelt

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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. — Helen Keller

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A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.

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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...

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I believe in unity of Hindus and Muslims. That is why I employ Muslim diction and cite the names of Hindu deities in order to shatter the prevailing prejudices

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