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#35 Gandhi’s Sweet Tooth
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“We must be the change we wish to see.”
Mahatma Gandhi, 20th century Indian spiritual & political leader
A woman travels across India to see Gandhi.
After waiting all day to speak to him, she asks him to tell her child to stop eating sugar. He tells her to come back in a week.
She travels to see Gandhi the following week. She asks him to tell her son to stop eating sugar. He says to the child, “Son, stop eating sugar.”
The mother asks Gandhi why she had to wait a week and travel such a great distance for the second time.
He tells her, “A week ago, I was still eating sugar.”
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