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women

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night: evidently his wife

described as looking like a "meek cow"

was no longer desirable enough be a solid test. 109 All these destroyed more
respect for Gandhi (although I do recognize it's possible for
someone to be a
shitheel

and still say good things, just as

it's

possible for nice people to give really

awful advice). But die final push was provided by this

him:

comment attributed to
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and

love has always won. There have been tyrants

seem

and murderers and for a time they

invincible but in the end, they always fall Think of it,

as dismissive as hrs treatment

of his wife and sons.

treatment of the young women he used as

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roll across the

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planet. Thousands of cultures have been eradicated. Species are

disappearing by the hour.

history.

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