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  • Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautarna Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please.†   (source)
  • To keep faith and understand more of how Gandhi behaved when his life was really hard.†   (source)
  • There were company-wide notices about each day's menus, each day's weather, each day's words of the wise—last week's aphorisms were from MLK, Gandhi, Salk, Mother Teresa and Steve Jobs.†   (source)
  • Gandhi?†   (source)
  • Today, Gandhi would not do.†   (source)
  • The proponents of hunger strikes argued that it was a traditionally accepted form of protest that had been waged all over the world by such prominent leaders as Mahatma Gandhi.†   (source)
  • …Colin's mind raced like this: (1) baguettes (2) Katherine XIX (3) the ruby necklace he'd bought her five months and seventeen days before (4) most rubies come from India, which (5) used to be under control of the United Kingdom, of which (6) Winston Churchill was the prime minister, and (7) isn't it interesting how a lot of good politicians, like Churchill and also Gandhi, were bald while (8) a lot of evil dictators, like Hitler and Stalin and Saddam Hussein, were mustachioed?†   (source)
  • Remember that thing we read once in the paper about the Mahatma Gandhi?†   (source)
  • Except maybe Mahatma Gandhi.†   (source)
  • Often the key is a person with a knack for leadership: Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States, Mahatma Gandhi in India, and William Wilberforce in Britain.†   (source)
  • "Okay, Gandhi," Ringo said, and somebody snorted.†   (source)
  • These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations -- Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin -- bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • He spent two months harassing Clara, following her around the house and whispering in her ear while she was asleep, until he finally convinced her to sell a diamond ring to pay his way to the land of Mahatma Gandhi.†   (source)
  • When war broke out, Nately's family decided that he would enlist in the armed forces, since he was too young to be placed in the diplomatic service, and since his father had it on excellent authority that Russia was going to collapse in a matter of weeks or months and that Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Mussolini, Gandhi, Franco, Peron and the Emperor of Japan would then all sign a peace treaty and live together happily ever after.†   (source)
  • Gandhi grabbed my arm.†   (source)
  • Gandhi was a carnivore.†   (source)
  • His speaking tone and rhetoric are bold and impassioned, but he advocates the same nonviolence to achieve his methods as Gandhi used in India.†   (source)
  • Mahatma Gandhi†   (source)
  • Then there was the two-rupee enclosure and finally, in the middle of the track, the 'gandhi enclosure' where the poorest stood.†   (source)
  • The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s influence, like an echo of Gandhi's, prevails.†   (source)
  • And Gandhi's dead.†   (source)
  • As you know, Gandhi and Nehru aren't Indar's favourite subjects.†   (source)
  • Gandhi is eating again.   (source)
  • I am inspired by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the man who some call the Frontier Gandhi, who introduced a non-violent philosophy to our culture.   (source)
    Gandhi = political and spiritual leader during India's struggle for independence from Great Britain; an advocate of passive resistance
  • My grandfather had studied in India, where he had seen great speakers and leaders including Mohammad Ali Jinnah (the founder of Pakistan), Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, our great Pashtun leader who campaigned for independence.   (source)
    Mahatma Gandhi = political and spiritual leader during India's struggle for independence from Great Britain
  • Gandhi reluctantly agreed to the partition of India and Pakistan to avoid civil war.
  • Here;' Dede said, pulling down Gandhi from the shelf.†   (source)
  • But it was to Father the crowning touch in Mrs. Gandhi's dictatorial takeover of the nation.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Gandhi finally got the best of Father.†   (source)
  • It happened that we were not far from the statue of Gandhi on the esplanade.†   (source)
  • Father and Mother complained regularly about Mrs. Gandhi, but it meant little to me.†   (source)
  • It had been one of Mrs. Gandhi's most vocal critics.†   (source)
  • Father went on: "Did you hear when he said, 'Bapu Gandhi said, "All religions are true"'?"†   (source)
  • Mrs. Gandhi and her foolishness will pass.†   (source)
  • "If Mrs. Gandhi is what being modern and advanced is about, I'm not sure I like it," Mother said.†   (source)
  • The boy is getting to be on affectionate terms with Gandhi?†   (source)
  • "Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.'†   (source)
  • B. C. Gandhi struck his forehead and staggered back.†   (source)
  • --MAHATMA GANDHI Americans knew for decades about the unfairness of segregation.†   (source)
  • This view prevailed, despite Manilal Gandhi's strong objections.†   (source)
  • My typical day started in the early morning, when I made rounds with my team leader, B. C. Gandhi.†   (source)
  • B. C. Gandhi explained it to me: "The poorest in America are the sickest.†   (source)
  • As Deepak spoke, B. C. Gandhi looked at me and rolled his eyes.†   (source)
  • Call me B.C. or Gandhi," he said squeezing my hand.†   (source)
  • B. C. Gandhi had christened our quarters "Our Mistress of Perpetual Fornication."†   (source)
  • Such widely different persons as Gandhi, Nehru, Nkrumah, and Nasser all acknowledge this fact.†   (source)
  • Gandhi proved it's the only weapon that can win against violence.†   (source)
  • It was like the message of the photographs of Gandhi and Nehru in the room outside.†   (source)
  • "I tried to do some of the things Gandhi talks about—you know, keeping calm in your own mind no matter what's going on outside."†   (source)
  • He refused to speak Hindi as well, considering it the language of Gandhi, the man who had approved the partition of Punjab and the slaughter of millions.†   (source)
  • Then, like a magician groping in a top hat for a new trick—Masterji had once taken our whole class to the Gandhi Auditorium in the bazaar to see Marvelous Mahendra, the Maharaja of Magic, and we had loved Marvelous Mahendra more than we had the American movie Seven Village Girls Find Seven Boys to Many— he whipped an aerogram out of his trouser pocket and flicked me with it.†   (source)
  • I was reading about Mr. Gandhi's prison experience and how he quieted his fears and directed his thoughts so that his enemies were never really in charge of him.†   (source)
  • It too may pass—like Mrs. Gandhi.†   (source)
  • Yes, I know what Bapu Gandhi said.†   (source)
  • After Daddy Gandhi, what next?†   (source)
  • No friend of Mrs. Gandhi's.†   (source)
  • Bapu Gandhi said—†   (source)
  • "… "Bapu Gandhi?†   (source)
  • I would have been just as shocked to see Mahatma Gandhi or Elvis in Scarlett's bed; I had no idea she even knew Macon Faulkner.†   (source)
  • Here's Gandhi.†   (source)
  • And to forestall threats of death from the crowd in the gandhi enclosure, Clarence kept his fastest horse near him at all times.†   (source)
  • The principle was not so important that the strategy should be used even when it was self-defeating, as Gandhi himself believed.†   (source)
  • The Babylon Stakes was banned after one horse, 'Forced Potato,' managed to bite a jockey and then leapt the fence to attack as many as it could in the jeering gandhi enclosure.†   (source)
  • The ANC's leaders, we said, had to be willing to violate the law and if necessary go to prison for their beliefs as Gandhi had.†   (source)
  • With his gentle demeanor, Gandhi seemed the very personification of nonviolence, and he insisted that the campaign be run along identical lines to that of his father's in India.†   (source)
  • This idea was strongly affirmed by Manilal Gandhi, the Mahatma's son and the editor of the newspaper Indian Opinion, who was a prominent member of the SAIC.†   (source)
  • We explained that we thought the time had come for mass action along the lines of Gandhi's nonviolent protests in India and the 1946 passive resistance campaign, asserting that the ANC had become too docile in the face of oppression.†   (source)
  • Rothmans was also what we puffed at Our Lady, courtesy of B. C. Gandhi, who got cartons at deep discount from Canal Street.†   (source)
  • I picked up the scent of Brut and then Winston tobacco, and seconds later B. C. Gandhi was at my shoulder.†   (source)
  • Ronaldo said, "Gandhi is never serious.†   (source)
  • I had slipped away from the festivities in B. C. Gandhi's room, my fingers sore despite the keeper's gloves and my knees aching.†   (source)
  • "You mean Indian doctors," Gandhi said.†   (source)
  • I ENTERED HIS HOUSE using my penknife and the sort of ancillary surgical skills only a B. C. Gandhi can teach you.†   (source)
  • "A safari to see the natives killing each other, and to catch a few Broadway shows," is how B. C. Gandhi put it when he heard about the plan.†   (source)
  • Most definitely it would have to be under the framed black-and-white print of Gandhi spinning cotton.†   (source)
  • According to B. C. Gandhi's rules, if you had more than seven tubes in you, you were as good as dead.†   (source)
  • Nestor threw a bottle cap at Gandhi.†   (source)
  • Had you seen us all in the cafeteria, you would have guessed B. C. Gandhi was the Chief Resident, because B.C. looked the part.†   (source)
  • Gandhi is staying in New York.†   (source)
  • "Look here, Marion," Gandhi said.†   (source)
  • My senior resident, B. C. Gandhi, asked me late one night when we were both punch-drunk from lack of sleep, "Do you know the disadvantage of every-other-night call?"†   (source)
  • India Versus Australia, 2nd Test At Brisbane Special Cable Viewing In B. C. Gandhi's Room (Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, and West Indians welcome, but if you cheer for Australia management reserves the right to eject you.†   (source)
  • Gandhi walked off.†   (source)
  • Gandhi is coming.†   (source)
  • We solace ourselves with that idea of the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves.†   (source)
  • Then the old man noticed who Indar was, and he began to talk about India in the old days and his meeting with Gandhi in some famous mud hut.†   (source)
  • I studied the large framed photographs of Gandhi and Nehru and wondered how, out of squalor like this, those men had managed to get themselves considered as men.†   (source)
  • As if Gandhi should go dressed in a Prince Albert.†   (source)
  • A sort of doubt has always hung around the character of Tolstoy, as round the character of Gandhi.†   (source)
  • But once you know that the man himself is firmly convinced that he is Mahatma Gandhi, then his conduct becomes perfectly reasonable and logical.†   (source)
  • The people up at Government House wouldn't hear of it; it's as much as they'll do to sanction an Everest expedition, and when I said I thought of wandering about the Kuen-Luns on my own, they looked at me rather as if I'd suggested writing a life of Gandhi.†   (source)
  • For a long while a Siamese Buddha hung on the wall, to be replaced first by Michelangelo's "Night," then by a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi.†   (source)
  • Anything that took stamina got him--six-day bike races, dance marathons, walkathons, flagpole sitting, continuous and world flights, long fasts by Gandhi or striking prisoners, people camping underground, buried alive and fed and breathing through a shaft--any miracles of endurance and effort, as if out of competition with cylinder walls or other machine materials that withstand steam, gases, and all inhuman pressure.†   (source)
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