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 "There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." \\
 -- [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1276812-there-are-many-causes-that-i-am-prepared-to-die | Gandhi]]
 
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 When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\
 — [[https://saudialchemist.org/2007/11/24/yes-i-am-a-muslim-a-christian-and-a-jew/ | Gandhi]] (but didn't he also say "God has no religion"?)
 
-On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\
-a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king.  Gandhi replied simply, \\
-"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\
-— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling
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 "Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." \\
 — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
 
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 The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\
 of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
 if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
-— Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe (1786)
+— [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
 
 "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
 — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
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 "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\
 — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
 
-Looking at a mass of things for sale in Athens: "How many things I can do without!" \\
-— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] on consumerism
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 "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. \\
 Hack away at the unessential." \\
 — [[https://www.brucelee.com/podcast-blog/2017/6/28/52-hack-away-the-unessentials | Bruce Lee]]
 
+On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\
+a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king.  Gandhi replied simply, \\
+"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling
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+Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\
+— [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC
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 1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\