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...close friend what made him the most sad in life, supplied this answer: "the hardness of heart of the well-educated." The genteel and reflective scholar in his sunbathed study does not seem to go with words like hardness, coldness, emptiness of love or barrenness of soul. Gandi perhaps had in his mind a less genteel, and more Imperial prototype. Yet there is a brand of unresponsive Love and of Inert Concern which blesses no more, and damages no less, than straight-forward cynicism. Quiet compassion and relaxed (i.e., controllable) self-accusation are no less evil in their end-results...
When competing against China, neither country can afford to follow Gandi's philosophy of hastening slowly, he said. They must "hasten with haste." This cannot be done while the largest item in the budget is for defense...
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