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Is being a gandhi is the only qualification to rule india?
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Is being a gandhi is the only qualification to rule india?
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I've heard several stories from my friends who have been abroad that racists first abuse you by calling "gandhi".
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Gotta love the moral clarity Bush brought to the conduct of our government. gandhi Says:
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Maybe SISMI has another job for him elsewhere. gandhi
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I take admission in Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management through AIEEE and do full payment, but I want to take admission in other gandhi college through Orissa Jee.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 9: 32 am baedo says: erin just saw juno on monday and was saying last night that she wanted to go see it again. bne are way behind the ‘power curve’ on thier movie watching. they only just watched gandhi last night (for the first time).
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It's as if gandhi supporters used violence to argue his stance of civil disobedience and non-violence.
Elizabeth Edwards: "I Just Have More Confidence" In Hillary On Health Care 2009
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RP, depends on the subject. jayalalitha and priyanka gandhi will get different yields.
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P gandhi. he had immeasurable strength. john lennon. dalai lama. they understand the real strength is within yourself.
Archive 2009-08-01 floreta 2009
bilby commented on the word gandhi
"'How long have I been here?'
His voice was unrecognizable. She must have understood him anyway.
'Eight days.'
'Bring me my clothes,' he said. 'I've got to get up and leave. I'm the only one who can find her.'
'You just relax,' she said. "Or we'll strap you down. You should be glad that you're even alive.'
She put a clip on his finger; attached to the clip was a cord connected to the other screen.
'A pulse oximeter,' she said. 'Measures oxygen saturation in the blood.'
'A telephone?' he whispered.
She shook her head. More electrodes were placed on his chest.
'A scope,' she said. 'Monitors heart functions.'
He felt his consciousness fading.
'Gandhi,' he said, 'continued to sleep beside naked women. After he made a vow of chastity. To test his sexual continence. Would you be interested?'"
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.
March 19, 2008
sionnach commented on the word gandhi
In later life, Gandhi was plagued by bunions from having gone barefoot for decades. Years of hungerstrikes had left him skinny, with the bad breath that accompanies ketosis, prone to religious hallucinations.
Yes, you could say he was a supper-callused fragile mystic, hexed by halitosis.
April 12, 2008