I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi is a world leader in the movement of nonviolence. He was a man of action and believed that anger can be transformed into a power to move the world. He believed in the power of fearlessness and the power of love that stems from the ability to express your anger in a productive way. In his life, he was able to use his anger in a way that changed him from being physically hurt by his opponents to being able to change the world around him. He was able to move from being an angry young man, to being a spiritual leader who changed not only his nation but the entire world.

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  4. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

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