“One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.”

—  Subhas Chandra Bose

"Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians" at Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html

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Indian nationalist leader and politician 1897–1945

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