Gandhi
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Who
was Gandhi ?
Gandhi
was a constant experimenter. Spirituality, religion,self-reliance, health,
education, clothing, drinks, child care, status of women, no field escaped
his search for truth. His thoughts when appeared in the form of talk or
article became official words of action with the masses of India. He was
a man who did what he said and led an exemplary and a transparent life.
Not many people can claim "My life is an open book". There were millions
of Indians who treated Gandhi's suggestions as supremecommands and acted
upon them (hence the name Mahatma). Born in Gujurat, fluent with Hindi
and English, and
residing in the minds of millions, Gandhiji was able to unite India like
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Franz Kafka
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THE SPRING
He is thirsty, and is cut off from
a spring
by a mere clump of bushes.
But he is divided against
himself:
one part overlooks the whole,
sees
that he is standing here and that
the spring is just
beside him;
but another part notices nothing,
has at most a divination that
the first part sees all.
But as he notices nothing he cannot drink. |
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E.E.
Cummings
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Pity this busy monster,manunkind, not.
Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness
--electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born -- pity poor flesh
and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence. We doctors know
a hopeless case if -- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go |
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Transcendentalism
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Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg, poet, social activist and
member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, also
engaged the attention of the FBI recordkeepers. "I have a stack of documents
three feet high," the . . . poet said, and showed me a sampling of them.
He has devoted much of his time to challenging the governmenton issues
of privacy and personal freedom - including sexual preference - and arousing his fellow
writers to campaign for freedom of expression.
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Walt
Whitman
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Whitman was a true
patriot. His poems sing of the praises of the United States of America
and the cause of democracy. The poet's love of his country grew from his
faith that Americans might reach new worldly and spiritual heights.
Whitman wrote:
"The chief reason for the being of the United States of America is to bring
about the common good will of all mankind, the solidarity of the world." |
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Existentialism
"I see too deep
and too much...". |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelligible to him, as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs. |
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