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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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The earliest attribution of this to Gandhi yet located is in a T-shirt advertisement in Mother Jones, Vol. 8, No. 5 (June 1983), p. 46

 

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma)

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