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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. – Mahatma Gandhi

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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. – Mahatma Gandhi

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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. – Mahatma Gandhi

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