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“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Harijan (28 July 1949) p. 219
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- df797700dfc596ef7ab0874a54a8efdb73b0b559a895528bb6521d045d3b45d0
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