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Mahatma Gandhi

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth

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Gandhi is saying that the ideas of truth and non-violence are very old and well-known, not his own inventions. His contribution was to apply these principles in large, real-life situations to see how effective they could be.

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