“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.”

Quoted by Pyarelal Nayyar in Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase (Volume 10), page 552 http://books.google.com/books?id=sswBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+Earth+provides+enough+to+satisfy+every+man's+need+but+not+for+every+man's+greed%22 (1958)
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pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948

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